Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nobel Peace Prize for Soviet Foreign Commissar "Maxie" Litvinoff was urged last week by the Swedish association, Friends of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile Comrade Litvinoff's alert British-born wife, Ivy, won her three-year fight to get Dictator Stalin to order every Red Army soldier to learn "Basic English," a simplified vocabulary of 850 words in which it is supposed to be possible to express almost any thought. First English books to be read by Red Soldiers: Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels re-written in Basic...
Heavy Neon. Isotopes are forms of the same element having different atomic weights. Most famed isotope is "heavy hydrogen" for which Columbia's Harold Clayton Urey won last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Dr. Gustav Hertz of Berlin's Siemens Engineering Works told how he extracted 98% pure ''heavy neon" (atomic weight 22) from ordinary neon (atomic weight 20). The separation, accomplished with the help of mercury in a long series of connected flasks, was so ingenious that Dr. Hertz's description of it was heartily clapped, and when he had finished...
...Augustus Lindbergh. Familiar only to the small scientific circle is the mighty attack of Dr. Florence Sabin upon the germ of tuberculosis. Every cancer specialist is aware of Rous's sarcoma but outside the Institute's walls Dr. Peyton Rous is a personal unknown. It took a Nobel Prize in 1930 and the recent use of his blood analysis in bastardy cases to put Dr. Karl Landsteiner into the lay Press. Long ago Dr. Alexis Carrel had some small renown as the man who had found a way to keep a piece of chicken heart living and growing...
...Soon he moved on to the University of Chicago where he, with Dr. Charles Claude Guthrie, perfected the technique of transferring kidneys, ovaries, thyroids, legs from one dog to another. Upon that accomplishment Dr. Carrel sailed into the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan in 1906. Six years later the first Nobel Prize ever awarded to a U. S. doctor of medicine went to Alexis Carrel for his suturing of blood vessels and transplantation of organs...
Every leading Briton seemed on the qui vive last week to thwart Benito Mussolini's candid designs on Ethiopia. Political fossils like bemonocled Nobel Peace Prizeman Sir Austen Chamberlain, shaggy-maned David Lloyd George, Tea-pot-Tempester Winston Churchill- and Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, who has lately collected 11,000,000 British straw votes for Peace, all hustled in to see Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare...