Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British Chemical Trust. Practically all British industrial chemical concerns went under centralized control last week upon the formation of the Imperial Chemical Industries, a half billion dollar concern. The principal components are the Brunner Mond Co. (heavy chem-icals), British Dyestuffs Corp., Nobel industries (explosives), and United Alkali Co., each of which already predominates over its branch of the trade. Earnings of the combine will approximate $20,000,000 yearly, according to Sir Alfred Moritz Mond, chairman. One of his associates, as director, is Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquis of Reading, onetime Viceroy and Governor General of India...
...Nobel Prize" winner's new volume of plays containing "Press Cuttings" "the Glimpse of Reality," "Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction," "The Fascinating Foundling," "Jitta's Atonement," "Constancy Rewarded," and "The Music Cure...
Prizes are acceptable to Bernand Shaw, if not to Sinclair Lewis. A somewhat tardy consideration of "St. Joan" has resulted in the awarding of the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature to its brilliant and caustic creator. Mr. Shaw makes no attempt to conceal the fact that he is pleased at being the recipient of the honor, perhaps realizing that even though it might be considered as merely an additional title and therefore an additional burden. There is a material compensation...
...studies on cancer especially, for his pathological work in general, Dr. Fibiger was reported, last week, to be the 1926 Nobel Prizer in medicine. That would carry $40,000 in addition to the fame...
Director Robert A. Millikan of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics (Pasadena, Calif.), Nobel Prizeman in physics for 1923 (for isolation and measurement of the electron): "I delivered three lectures on the Terry foundation at Yale University, on 'Evolution in Science and Religion.' I first showed the breaking down of what the 19th Century so confidently regarded as a final interpretation of the physical universe, by 20th Century discoveries-radio activity, the inter-convertability of matter and light, the corpuscular theory of radiant energy, etc. Next I showed that while there is always 'something new under...