Word: norman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TALE OF A SHIPWRECK-James Norman Hall-Nought on Mifflin...
Mostly because he had decided that the Western World was too much with him, but partly because in 1916 he picked up a certain book in a Paris bookshop, James Norman Hall went to Tahiti at the age of 33 to spend the rest of his life. That was in 1920. He is still there, still interested in Sir John Barrow's The Mutiny of the Bounty. Thousands of U. S. readers who never heard of Sir John Barrow have pored over Nordhoff & Hall's rewriting of the story (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against...
...Author. James Norman Hall, native of Iowa, enlisted in Kitchener's First Hundred Thousand at the outbreak of the War, went to France in 1915 as a machine-gunner. Transferred to the Lafayette Escadrille in 1917. Hall met there Charles Nordhoff of Philadelphia, Mexico and California, discovered a mutual enthusiasm for the history of H. M. S. Bounty. Shot down behind the German lines in the spring of 1918, Hall spent the last months of the War as a prisoner. After the Armistice he collaborated with Nordhoff on a history of the Lafayette Escadrille. Both were tired...
...particularly happy choice, for brevity of speech certainly deserves to be commemorated with brevity of costume. The only unfortunate aspect of all this, is that very likely no new members will be admitted until April, the rigours of a New England winter being considered too severe for mere neophytes, Norman Fradd or no Norman Fradd...
...identified with Vitamin C. After long search for raw material from which the vitamin could be mined in quantity, Szent-Gyorgyi turned to the paprika beds near his home in Hungary and in one day obtained a half-pound of his acid. In March last year, Professor Walter Norman Haworth of Birmingham. England determined the vitamin's constitution, and in August he, and Swiss chemists in Zurich. independently synthesized Vitamin C from a ketonaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. Now the pure substance is produced as colorless crystals in Swiss and British laboratories at 3¢ per gram...