Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power (power to cure beriberi, the chief characteristic of Vitamin B) is removed, though it continues to stimulate yeast. Funk therefore proposed that Vitamin B was really two vitamins?B, the anti-neuritic, and D, the yeast-stimulating. Dr. E. V. McCollum, of Johns Hopkins University, one of the pioneer American investigators of vitamins, has also used the term Vitamin D for a factor present in cod-liver oil that prevents rickets...
...this merger, too, are the individuality and tradition of another famous morning paper, Charles A. Dana's Sun, absorbed by The New York Herald in 1920, and perpetuating its name today in one of the strongest evening newspapers in the country. There is also included The Press, a pioneer in the reporting of American sport...
...Everybody's is called The Devonshers and is a combination of mystery, adventure and the great West. She is a careful workman, spends weeks of hard work revising a manuscript that does not satisfy her. She is, of course, thoroughly American, and she possesses a curious sort of pioneer quality. Just what that quality is you would have to meet her to know. It is this quality that I imagine you will find in her new novels?the novels she is going to write from now on. They will still be of the West; but they will probably show that...
...were displayed scores of daguerreotypes (1840-1860) culled from the private albums of the oldest Philadelphia families. In defense of daguerreotypes, it was pointed out out that "as documents of human interest . . . they are more truthful in their revelation of personality than is the modern development. . . . Nor did the pioneer photographer neglect a fine appreciation for spacing and composition in the arrangement of his subject on the plate." "The elusive half smile, half frown of the posed groups" was traced to "the awkward time* required for the photographic process...
There is a long way to go from Pioneer's paragraphing to a school of radio criticism. But then, his name is Pioneer. The Tribune professed to be very well pleased with the reception of its innovation...