Word: mendel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mendel, Inc. This shenanigan about a Jewish plumber who invents a machine which will fulfill all the impersonal obligations of a housewife, has an expert Kosher trio in Joe Smith, Charles Dale and Alexander Carr (who used to play Perlmutter to Barney Bernard's Potash). Such guffaws do they elicit that cautious critics murmurously compare the play to Abie's Irish Rose...
...Foot Children. Drs. Thomas B. Osborne and Lafayette B. Mendel of Yale reported dietetic experiments on rats which, if applied to humans, would produce six-foot six-year-olds. The diet: liberal proteins; lettuce; liver; yeast...
...Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeléeff, Russian chemist, arranged all the elements in groups that show the mathematical progression of their atomic weights, predicted the existence of undiscovered elements which subsequent research found. Similarly, there was a square in the chemical crossword puzzle for radium, the properties of which were known before Madame Curie obtained that metal in a free state...
...possible elements charted by Mendeléeff, five remained to be found until last week, when a German Curie, Dr. Ida Tacke of Berlin, assisted by Drs. Walter Noddack and Otto Berg, proclaimed their discovery of numbers 43 and 75, which they promptly named "masurium," after the East Prussian lakes where General Von Hindenburg defeated the Russians in 1915, and "rhenium," after the River Rhine...
There are few remedies for diabetes. What is perhaps the best known remedy is the injection of insulin into the veins. But injections are troublesome, expensive, often painful. Come Mendel, Wittgenstein, Wolffenstein, three wise men of Berlin, professors at the University there. They have made insulin into pills; not such pills as are wont to be taken by candlelight with a sob, a gulp of water and a lump of sugar. No, for insulin dissolves in the juices of the stomach and becomes virtueless. These pills melt in the mouth like very sugar, but, unlike sugar, they melt into...