Word: knighthood
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Undoubted Queen. Penicillin was not technically the first of the antibiotics, but it was the first to make medical sense, let alone history. While Alexander Fleming went on puttering in his littered laboratory, interrupted often to accept awards and honors (most notable: a knighthood from George VI and, with Florey and Chain, a Nobel Prize), other antibiotics poured from researchers' vials. Some, like streptomycin for tuberculosis, proved to have sharply defined powers that penicillin lacked; others complement it with a spectrum of antibacterial activity...
...Cornerstone, by Zoe Oldenbourg. A superior historical novel, told with massive detail, about medieval knighthood and knavery (TIME...
This artfully written French historical novel plunges its readers into the violence of an epoch when knighthood was in flower but life was no bed of roses. Three generations of the House of Linnierès play out their lives against a background of medieval manners and 13th; century skulduggery...
Bags & Spoons. Eric Vansittart Bowater, says one of his friends, is a "self-made man who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth." Though he comes from a titled family, Sir Eric earned his knighthood for World War II service in the Air Ministry. The family has been in the paper business since 1881, but it was not until Eric, a wounded veteran, joined the firm in 1921 that the company began to expand fast. Sir Eric decided that the firm, then only a trading company with assets of $1,500.000, ought to get into manufacturing. Unable...
...career was as brief as it was spectacular. A notorious brawler, he eventually stabbed and killed a crony in a dispute over a tennis score, and had to flee Rome. He found refuge at Malta, where he painted a portrait of the Grand Master and was rewarded with a knighthood. But then he assaulted a fellow knight and was imprisoned. He escaped, made his way to Tuscany, was arrested for a crime he had not committed. Soon afterward, he died of fever. He was then...