Word: olsen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general Professor Olsen and his research arsonists (George E. Ferguson, Leopold Scheflan) found three distinct layers of gases present in their burning room, "one at the ceiling, one on the floor, and an intermediate layer which consisted of more nearly pure air than either of the other two." A few moments of blaze, however, churns the layers together...
Upon investigating the immediate cause of 10,000 U. S. deaths by fire each year. Professor John Charles Olsen of Brooklyn's Polytechnic Institute has found that in a large percentage of deaths, burning clothes supplied the deadly fumes. This he verified by setting a variety of fires in an asbestos-lined room, he reported last week in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. Woolen and silk clothes, rugs and furnishings produce prussic acid and ammonia as well as carbon monoxide and dioxide. Burning wool also produces toxic hydrogen sulfide. Cotton, rayon, paper, wood and other cellulose produce poisonous concentrations of carbon...
...FOOTNOTE* In hot demand are jobs for husbands of Democratic women workers. Emily Newell Blair, Mrs. Ross's predecessor on the National Committee, got her husband Harry into the Department of Justice as a special assistant. Minnesota's Annie Dickie Olsen is looking for a diplomatic berth for her husband Peter. Uxorial efforts are also being made by Mrs. Harrison Parkman, vice chairman of the Kansas State Cimmittee, Mrs. June Fickel, vice chairman of the Iowa State Committee and Mrs. Marie Proctor, secretary of the Washington State Committee...
...truth is, we don't like the term jazz". It always signifies something more or loss crude. Ours is a certain type of American music that has caught the spirit of the music-loving world. Look at Olsen, Lombardo, Bernie--even in Europe--Paris, Berlin, London--this new American music has caught like wildfire. Pagan it may be called, but nevertheless just look how it's used. But we decry the word 'jazz.' Which reminds me, now that beer's here, there's going to be a great change in the music world, and people are going to learn...
...dinosaur eggs eventually caused Dr. Andrews much vexation. George Olsen, paleontologist, discovered the first fragments. Dr. Andrews & companions "did not take his story very seriously. . . . The prospect was thrilling, but we would not let ourselves think of it too seriously. . . ." Dr. Walter Granger, paleontologist, finally said: "No dinosaur eggs have ever been found, but the reptiles probably did lay eggs. These must be dinosaur eggs. They can't be anything else...