Word: profs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TABLE TALK OF G. B. S.-Archibald Henderson-Harper ($2.00). Last year, Mr. Shaw "granted an interview." Unto him there entered his Boswell, brisk Prof. Henderson of the University of North Carolina; and a book, instead of a column in the newspapers, now emerges. Here indeed is proof of pundithood...
...under that state's new anti-evolution law for having "taught evolution" from a biologic text-book previously approved by the state authorities (TIME, May 18), the forces of light and darkness ranged themselves for conflict. George W. Rappelyea, Dayton coal man and evolutionist, who preferred charges against Prof. Scopes to test the law's constitutionality, marshaled funds for the defense, announced that, in addition to many eminent scientists who had offered assistance and testimony, the services of Herbert George Wells, British outliner of history, would be sought. Counsel for Prof. Scopes accepted offers of legal aid from...
...small proportion are poisonous and these are all known and can be guarded against. Irritant smokes present a different problem and may be invented in deadlier forms than are at present known but, as they are invented, a counter-invention is sure to come. In any case, as Prof. Haldane points out, the primary object of gas warfare is to reduce the efficiency of opponents by making them keep their gas masks on and to deny them the use of the ground by saturating it with blistering fluids and others which are severely irritant...
...Treatment Co., felt his heart cockles glow warmly when he reopened his summer home recently and found this state of affairs. He had covered that spoon with "Crodon," a new alloy containing chromium (next to diamond, the hardest of all substances), which had been perfected for electroplating purposes by Prof. Colin G. Fink of Columbia University and some associates, of whom the spoon's owner...
...Prof. Fink has also perfected a method of restoring corroded metal antiquities by reversing the destructive electrolytic action now known to be set up in metals by the conjunction of air and moisture upon them (TIME...