Word: koch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late great German, Robert Koch (1843-1910), who with the late great Louis Pasteur (1822-95) gave medicine its modern turn and who lived long enough to win a Nobel Prize (1905),* discovered the tuberculosis bacillus. It is often called Koch's bacillus. One of Koch's and Pasteur's early disciples in the new medicine was young Léon Charles Albert Calmette (born 1863, at Nice). He began to practice medicine in Paris as their discoveries and technique were beginning to spread. He was then 23 and amenable to military service, like every young Frenchman after the Franco-German...
...influential prey than Representatives. Last week Senators- five of them as a special investigating committee-began to prey on lobbyists. Witnesses winced and twitched uncomfortably as Senators Caraway, Walsh of Montana and Borah took the lead in uncovering their undercover work. The week's developments: Pottery. Fredrick L. Koch is a Tariff Commission expert on ceramics. During the Senate tariff hearings he prompted Senator King with questions to show that the industry was not as depressed as its leaders made out. For this the potters unsuccessfully attempted to have him discharged from the Commission's employ. The chief...
...head of the advertising agency which numbers among its accounts American Tobacco Co., Radio Corp. of America and many another. Once an $18 a week messenger boy in a Chicago agency, he now has a private barber shop in his agency office. Every morning he seats himself in a Koch barber chair and is shaved so close that he nearly bleeds. He always tips the barber $1. Mr. Lasker winters in a stucco house next door to Mr. Hertz's. President Harding was his good friend. For a time (1921-23) he ran the U. S. Shipping Board...
Until 1894 there was no exact method of curing diphtheria. That year the German, Emil A. von Behring, progressing along research lines which Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch had opened, discovered that the poisons which the diphtheria germ gave out stimulated, if injected into an animal, antitoxins in the animal's blood. Such antitoxins, injected into an active case of diphtheria, counteracted the effects of the toxins, cured the disease...
...Macy & Co., Inc., controls La Salle & Koch Co. of Toledo and the Davison-Paxton Co. of Atlanta...