Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green silkworms crawling around the Harvard laboratory of Assistant Professor (of zoology) Carroll Milton Williams look like normal specimens, but when Professor Williams tests them with a Geiger counter, they make it rattle like a cornpopper. The caterpillars are radioactive. Soon they will spin cocoons of radioactive silk and will eventually emerge, if not disturbed, as radioactive moths...
...Nieuw Amsterdam nudged its way slowly through New York Harbor, and 74-year-old Dr. Albert Schweitzer faced the crouching semicircle around him like an indulgent grandfather playing a strange new game with the children. Though he refused to use English, he soon caught on to the rules. When they asked his interpreter to get him to pose against the rail with the city sky line behind him, Albert Schweitzer briskly nodded his grizzled head and grinned. "New York et moil" he said...
...turned his massive head alertly from questioner to questioner, often exploding into easy laughter, several times correcting his interpreter in the translation of a phrase. He seemed genuinely surprised by the big turnout. "You are so nice to me," he exclaimed at last in French. "You treat me like a big banker or a prizefighter...
...biography of Bach has never been surpassed. He is a doctor of medicine whose 36 years of selfless pioneering as a missionary to the natives of French Equatorial Africa are a bright highlight in the relations between the white race and the black. He is a philosopher who, like Spengler and Toynbee, has thought deeply about the crisis of Western culture. He is a Protestant minister and biblical scholar whose historical criticism of the New Testament, early in this century, turned out to be a theological blockbuster. Above all, he is a man who decided to turn his back...
...clearing is to be made. A Lambarene colleague reports that when a grapefruit was brought to Schweitzer as he worked late at night, he would always drop a spoonful of the juice on the floor beside him for the ants. "Look at my ants," he would say. "Just like cows around a pond...