Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explosions of derision and disbelief immediatety followed publication of Dr. von Bremer's ideas in the U. S. Cockroaches have been blamed for causing cancer by no less a person than Nobel Prizewinner Johannes Fibiger of Denmark. Many a lesser light has offered a variant of the germ theory. Subtle irritants, chemical or mechanical, have been suggested. Likewise cancer has been attributed to nervous strain, city life, life itself, breakdown of individual body cells, degeneracy of the entire constitution...
...Nobel Prizeman Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute a young aviator designed an improved machine to wash blood corpuscles two years ago. described it in an article in Science, signed "C. A. Lindbergh." Of Charles Augustus Lindbergh last week proud Biologist Carrel proclaimed to friends in Paris: "He has become my best assistant in biology. The name he will leave in that science will be as illustrious as that in aviation...
GRAMMAR OF LOVE-Ivan Bunin-Smith & Haas ($2). Ten characteristic short stories by the author of The Gentleman from San Francisco and 1933 winner of the Nobel Prize...
...Oxford. When Publican Florey put his foot down on such nonsense Tom moped at home, revolved methods of escape. When the offer of a post as tutor in a German family opened the door, Tom was out like a flash. He got along famously with his employer, a distinguished Nobel Prizewinning author and his queer menage, fell in love with Undine, a visiting cousin from the U. S. When he let himself be seduced by the luscious secretary it cost him both his job and Undine. But the experience had been valuable; back in London he was soon forging ahead...
...rose wiry, tousle-haired Dr. Irving Langmuir (Nobel Prize, chemistry, 1932). Electricity was intangible, said he, because it could not be seen, heard, felt, tasted...