Word: karle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...botanical laboratory at the University of Chicago, Professor George Konrad Karl Link recently made a discovery which he considered so noteworthy that he sent a report of it all the way to England, where it was published in the issue of Nature which came back to the U. S. last week. Dr. Link had found a plant hormone called heteroauxin, previously found elsewhere, in the nodules of red kidney beans. When applied to the bean roots, a paste containing the hormone caused bending, coiling, vertical retardation of root growth, lateral acceleration of root growth, local increase in thickness...
Earners in a total of $375 of financial aid towards the first term bill are Bernard F. Kamins '38, Frederick W. Jerome '38, Karl M. Davies '39, and Malcolm R. Wilkey '40. The last two, of whom wilkey is now regularly enrolled here, had been unable to take up residence in China under terms of Lignan Scholarships...
...some 750 business men actively engaged in distribution, had such headline speakers as President Percy Straus of R. H. Macy & Co., General R. E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., President Oswald Knauth of Associated Dry Goods Corp., Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden, Professor Paul H. Nystrom of Columbia University, President Karl T. Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and not least of all, Secretary of State Cordell Hull. To garnish this group as chairman of the first day's luncheon session, Director Bloomfield had little difficulty in getting the services of James Roosevelt, who for his own reasons always likes...
Chemical Officer: Karl von Clausewitz, tactician who made Germany's army a great war machine...
...last week, was jampacked with Chinese refugees. A bomb landed smack in the middle of them, killed 450, wounded 800. Passing in the street were Dr. Frank J. Rawlinson, veteran U. S. Missionary, and Motorcar Salesman H. S. Honigsberg and his Russian wife. All three were killed. Dr. Robert Karl Reischauer, Princeton University lecturer, acting as a tourist guide for the summer, had his leg torn off in the Palace hotel lobby. He died on his way to the hospital. Death came too, to an Australian-born U. S. barmaid known to Shanghai simply as Dodo Dynamite...