Word: protean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made "Radithor," last week was conducting a printing and advertising business in West Orange, N. J. He is a scholarly-looking man with no scientific or medical degrees, no learned connections other than membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in which he claims a protean interest in medical sciences, chemistry and physics. For a period he worked for U. S. Radium Corp. According to the Better Business Bureau, he has been associated with the manufacturers of "Thorone tablets ... 250 times more radioactive than radium." He also was connected with "Arium tablets" and with a "radiendocrinator...
Displaying again its Protean versatility, Government 1 announces drastic changes to take effect next fall. Lectures are to be reduced from two to one a week, and their subject matter is to be confined to the application of government principles to present conditions. What is more important, tutors in the department, as far as possible, are to be made instructors in sections meeting twice a week...
Daughter Mary Hill. Son-in-law Samuel's activities were protean. He bought expiring railroads, banks, utility corporations, built them up, then followed his hobbies-roadbuilding, international peace, entertaining royalty. He was president of four Pacific coast highway associations. In 1916 he straightened out the tangled Russian and Siberian railways for the Allies. He promoted a great "Peace Portal" on the U. S.-Canadian border near Elaine, Wash, to celebrate 100 years of U. S.-Canadian peace. He invited his friend Albert, then Crown Prince of the Belgians, to visit him in 1912. For the occasion he built...