Word: prizeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adults, it is a threat to life itself; at any age it can cause brain inflammation, which now (since Salk vaccine) kills more victims than does polio and handicaps about as many by damaging the brain. The progress reports: ¶ Harvard's Dr. John F. Enders (Nobel prizeman because his test-tube foundations made the Salk vaccine possible) and Dr. Samuel L. Katz have worked along orthodox lines, weakened the measles virus by growing it 70 times in tissue cultures of human kidney and amnion, and finally chick embryo cells. Despite this "attenuation," it has retained its power...
...Thurber's work, which comprises 17 volumes of prose and pictures, Nobel Prizeman T. S. Eliot said last year: "It is a form of humor which is also a way of saying something serious. There is a criticism of life at the bottom of it. It is serious and even somber. Unlike so much humor, it is not merely a criticism of manners-that is, of the superficial aspects of society at a given moment-but something more profound. His writings and also his illustrations are capable of surviving the immediate environment and time out of which they spring...