Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Academy of Medicine last week announced that Dr. Alexis Carrel, Nobel Prizewinner, member of the Rockefeller Institute, author of Man the Unknown (TIME. Sept. 16), would make one of his rare public appearances to talk on the "Mystery of Death." On the scheduled evening some 5,000 laymen tried to enter the Academy halls. Fully 2,000 were driven away by police. Next morning the New York Herald Tribune echoed the excitement by a report which occupied eight column feet of space. The New York Times used six feet, other papers a total of ten feet. Nothing quite like...
Died. Charles Richet, 85, French physiologist, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Science (for his work on anaphylaxis) ; of bronchial pneumonia; in Paris...
...would include the present Leader of Germany, Chancellor Adolf Hitler, who is also a Roman Catholic." The best Sir Patrick could do was to coax Putzy to admit that when Lady Listowel called upon him at Berlin in behalf of the German pacifist widely mentioned this year for the Nobel Peace Prize, Carl von Ossietzky, whom Nazis have clapped into a prison camp (TIME, Dec. 2), Dr. Hanfstaengl roared at Lady Listowel, "Ossietzky is a swine and a traitor!" Very earnestly last week Putzy testified, "I know Ossietzky is a traitor." "And do you think him also a swine?" asked...
FROM ROUSSEAU TO PROUST-Havelock Ellis-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Before the Nobel Prize Committee announced that no award for literature would be given this year, the magazine Books Abroad conducted a symposium to test the opinion of U. S. critics on likely candidates. Maxim Gorki received five votes, Theodore Dreiser three, Willa Cather, André Gide, Eugene O'Neill and Franz Werfel two, while a number of others, ranging from Havelock Ellis to Christopher Morley, received one apiece. If consistency of purpose, unremitting productivity, a distinguished career, were sole criteria, few critics could object to the choice of Havelock...
...Peynado, but he might take it on his hacienda, Fundacion, just outside the capital. In a superb stroke of dictating, he ordered through the puppet Assembly a resolution calling on him please not to leave the Dominican Republic. Next day he topped this by having himself recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize "because of his Pacifist actions...