Word: marshak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense of fair play: even if he had a pretty good idea of who was doing what to whom, he printed the letter rather than behave like an editor of Pravda, who certainly wouldn't. Thus the London Times had published two such letters (signed "S. Marshak, Ulitsa Chkalova 14/16, Apt. 113, Moscow") without comment or caveat. The editors were over a barrel: they could neither prove nor brand the letters an outright forgery...
...Streptomycin still looks like the most promising foe of tuberculosis, but Dr. Alfred Marshak of the U.S. Public Health Service found another likely-looking one: a yellow crystal extracted from California Spanish moss (not to be confused with the lacy Spanish moss that hangs from trees). It checks T.B. in guinea pigs, has still to be tested...
...Samuel Marshak's Twelve Months is the only surprise package in the book-and the best. Author Marshak is a translator of Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Shakespeare, Burns, and his new play is a lyrical fantasy on the old Christmas pantomime model, complete with the wicked old woman, Cinderella-girl, a young queen, talking animals and magic wands. Twelve Months does nothing to establish a new tradition, but it does add charm and poetry to a very...
...chairman of VOKS, nervously trying to turn the tide, declared that VOKS was powerless to help the correspondents, and that they should appeal to the foreign office. The correspondents retorted that they had already appealed to the foreign office. Said famed Soviet children's poet Simeon Marshak: "We are only writers here; we are just a gathering of poets; we cannot help...
Among the visitors will be Professor Henry N. Russell, Director of Princeton Observatory; Robert E. Marshak, University of Rochester, collaborator with H. A. Bethe on the theory of generation of solar energy; Ivan A. Getting, Research Fellow in preventive medicine and epidemiology, Harvard cosmic ray specialist; Professor Mather; and others...