Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This relatively light incidence of influenza has not, however, abated fear of and interest in this respiratory disease. When the University of Chicago officially announced that its Isidore Sydney Falk had isolated the causative germ, the Streptococcus polymorphous (TIME, Dec. 23), the news spread with the celerity of a political...
However, Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's Journal, with his usual salutary skepticism, editorialized: "With little if any apparent warrant, it is again announced, for at least the tenth time in five years, that the causative organism of influenza has been discovered and that it...
Reported Dr. Falk: "All I can say is that I made my report before the Bacteriology Club of the University of Chicago and the evidence will shortly be in print in more detailed form."
Supplemented Dr. William Hallock Park, Manhattan's great bacteriologist: "... A very thoughtful piece of work, whether or not he has found the influenza germ."
At most U. S. colleges there exist two kinds of faculty members: the teaching professors and the research professors. Dear to the heart of the undergraduate is many a teaching professor. Him they afterward remember for what little light and learning they possess, and also for his eccentricities, for good...