Word: levinstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus, with tart wisdom in his spoofing, Dr. Herbert Levinstein, president of the British Institute of Chemical Engineers, addressed last week at Bristol the Royal Institute of Chemistry. As a chemist, he scoffed at "the popular fallacy that to blow combatants to bits with high explosives is less bestial, wicked and cruel than to attack them by gas." President Levinstein strongly implied that rather than be blown to bits he would prefer to die gassed...
...Nowadays the destructive power of science in war is absurdly overrated," wound up Scientist Levinstein, who is considered the Empire's leading expert on war gases. "One might imagine that invention had rendered it possible to destroy a city and wipe out humanity in mass, as it were, by pressing a button. Tosh...