Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Leon Charles Albert Calmette, 67, with Veterinary C. Guerin developed the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, commonly called BCG vaccine. It is prepared from living tuberculosis germs taken from diseased cows. These germs are cultured for many germ generations until they become non-virulent. The discoverers believe, and famed Dr. Park of Manhattan agrees with them, that they have proved that BCG vaccine, if fed to infants the first ten days of life, immunizes them against tuberculosis. Many bacteriologists denounce BCG. They say that its live germs cause rather than prevent tuberculosis (TIME...
...Leon B. Richardson, professor of chemistry at Dartmouth: "The student . . . forms the idea that an accumulation of pedagogic credits makes a teacher, that untiring industry and uninspired adherence to directions in the solution of some minor problem of research makes a scholar...
...Grafter!", shouted some one on the Right, while Socialist Leader Leon Blum was shouting from the Tribune. "Make your charge openly!," he bellowed, and everyone seemed to shout at once. Rising from his seat near the centre of the chamber M. Edouard Herriot, onetime Prime Minister, everlasting Mayor of Lyons, finally stilled this particular tempest by assuring the Chamber that he (Radical-Socialist) had known M. Blum for 40 years and knew that the Socialist leader is not a "grafter...
Came the Franco-Prussian War, Sedan, the fall of the Empire. The Prussians encircled Paris. Fiery Leon Gambetta escaped in a balloon to direct the war from Tours. The beleaguered Parisians were left to eat rats and sawdust bread, shout the "Marseillaise" from the ramparts. Banker Dreyfus had an opportunity to purchase Critic Timbal's collection at a very attractive price. During the next 20 years, when defeated France was re-establishing herself, he had many similar opportunities...
...Leon Trotsky, exiled to Turkey two years ago by Dictator Josef Stalin, hurled a figurative bunch of sour grapes last week in Moscow's direction...