Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nazi efforts to groom Chancellor Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize have been featured by press handouts from the Party calling him reverently "Gentle Adolf...
...field of medicine no young Banting skyrocketed from obscurity with a cancer cure. Geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan of Caltech received a Nobel ' Prize for his studies in the heredity of fruit flies, but Dr. Morgan's reward was the result of research carried on over a period of many years...
...simple remedy in the shape of a little knob. . . I only wish that all other matters could be dispensed with so easily." Elected an honorary life member of the New York Evening Sun's Sun Club was Elder Statesman Elihu Root, 88. onetime (1905-09) Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (1912). onetime Sun dramatic critic, onetime Sun attorney. He accepted a .silver card of membership, commented: "This makes me a bimetallist...
...same speed through a vacuum. Last week from a sunny California valley came shocking news that "that most fundamental constant" is apparently a variable. Nineteenth Century theorists supposed that light was propagated through space by an all-pervading ether. The late great Albert Abraham Michelson, first U. S. Nobel Prizewinner in Science, reasoned that if this ether existed, then the motion of the earth through it should affect the velocity of light. In 1887 he and Edward W. Morley rigged up an interferometer, raced two beams of light against each other, one parallel to the earth's motion...
...WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS-William Butler Yeats - Macmillan ($2.50). If a Dublin Irishman in the course of conversation raises his right hand as if to take an oath, his wise friends know that he is about to quote from William Butler Yeats. Only Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Poet Yeats is Erin's uncrowned laureate as well as its most respected living writer. But even poets grow old. Though these latest poems may well seem more satisfactory to him than the wilder mystical verse of his youth, only devoted friends and a few new admirers...