Word: rena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colorado, the fur flew. The cause of the commotion was a grey, chunky, 75-year-old woman, who stumped up & down the state, making three speeches a day, buttonholing businessmen, doctors, politicians, writing letters morning & night. Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, "the greatest living woman scientist" (according to Dr. Simon Flexner, late famed director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research), was out to reduce Colorado's shockingly high death rate from disease...
...Florence Rena Sabin, 69, has a long career of firsts: first woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins, first woman to teach there, first woman member of the Rockefeller Institute, first woman member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is famed for her discovery of the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, her studies in tuberculosis. Dr. Simon Flexner, former head of the Rockefeller Institute once called her "the greatest living woman scientist and one of the foremost scientists of all time...
Commissioned second lieutenant in the U. S. Army Nurse Corps, trig, 22-year-old Volunteer Rena Hayman, lately a registered nurse at the Quincy, Mass. City Hospital, headed for West Point and her first assignment. Officering, trilled she, is "wonderful...
...Northrup, Hopedale Gilbert Corwin Elaine McCune, Bradford Junior College Gerard H. Coster, Jr. Bernice Epstein, Brooklyn, N. Y. Kieran H. Culliton Jean MacLaughlin, Brimmer-May School Lewis S. Dabney Joan Edmonds, New York Willard Dalrymple Christina Rossetti, Rye Beach David J. Davis Mary Marsh, Wellesley Henry H. Dearing, Jr. Rena Zary, Cleveland Wheeler Dennis, Jr. Peggy Lewis, Packer Institute John W. Dixon Audrey Armstrong, Pembroke Donald H. Eldredge, Jr. Betty McClure, Wellesley Robert Ellery Fanny Gassett, Perkins Olaf H. Fernald Lucille Ogden, Wellesley Philip St. G. Field Becky Farnsworth, Winchester Gabriel P. Freedman Geraldine Cohn, Radcliffe Sanford J. Freedman...
Power Drives. Meantime, from Rena up the Ősterdal (Glomma River Valley) and from Lillehammer up the Gudbrandsdal (Lågen River Valley), the Germans launched two mechanized columns which again showed the world, as in Poland, how a modern juggernaut can open the road to war. These spearheads, to be followed by heavier forces from the growing Nazi troop-pool in the Oslo district, drove to reach their comrades at Trondheim before the floundering Allies should surround that town and close the roads to reinforcements. One struck north to the copper town of Röros at a speed...