Word: named
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example, chemists believe that there are eight varieties of vitamin B, at least ten of D. One member of the vitamin B family is also known as vitamin G, another newcomer as factor Y. Two relatives of the C tribe are known as J and P. Most practical name-calling, so far as scientific convenience is concerned, would be to recognize each vitamin by its chemical name. Thus vitamin E would be known as alpha tocopherol, C as ascorbic acid, B² as riboflavin. But since the word vitamin is as popular with laymen as "calory" once was, chemists will...
...Spring-Air Co. (mattresses) of Holland, Mich, informed its employes: "The name 'Spring-Air' . . . stands for buoyancy, for joyousness, for health and boundless, wholesome growth and happiness. Our products express these thoughts. For our own good, our words and thoughts should do so, too. Let's plan on Peace, think Peace, live Peace...
...Ethel Vance" is a pseudonym for someone whom the publishers say they have good reason not to name. The book might be the product of an impossible collaboration by Kay Boyle, Christopher Isherwood, Dorothy Sayers, Franz Kafka and Alfred Hitchcock. Its atmospheric detail and steadily elaborated suspense are better than most Hitchcock. Book-of-the-Month Clubbers, who get Escape for October, will not willingly lay it down...
...with sympathy, her sympathy with the whites makes Red Strangers a tragi-comedy rather than a tragedy. The final scene (after two generations of British rule): A young Kikuyu farmer takes his first ride in a plane, trudges boastfully home, pleased with himself and the white bwana, determined to name his forthcoming child Aeroplane...
...Lyons announced Saturday that the name of Talcott Parsons, assistant professor of Sociology, had been added to the Faculty Advisory Committee, consisting of Jerome D. Greene, chairman; Alvin H. Hanson; Howard Mumford Jones; Carl J. Friedrich; and Arthur Wild