Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Months passed. It became clear, for all the absurd extravagance of public rumor, that something unusual was afoot. Last week Mr. John Edwin Barnard, Hon. Secretary of the Royal Microscopical Society, permitted his name to be attached to an announcement: He and his colleagues believed that they had isolated the cancer germ ... A minute disturbance in a ray of light revealed by the most intricate methods of microscopy ever devised... Highly satisfactory experiments upon mice, in whose tissues, inflamed with coal tar, the injected cancer organism produced both sarcoma and carcinoma*. . . Experiments in far too early a stage to warrant...
Died. Professor Giacomo Boni, 66, archaeologist, who became famed through his researches into the antiquities of Rome and was director of excavations at the Forum; on the Palatine Hill, at Rome, from an apoplectic stroke. King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Benito Mussolini sent condolences to his family. Signor Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner of Rome (equivalent of mayor), sent in the name of the Eternal City a guard of honor to the mortuary, announced that the funeral expenses would be borne by the city...
...Harvey Gushing, 56, was graduated from Yale in 1891 and Harvard Medical School in 1895. He immediately began to practice surgery. From 1902 to 1911 he was an associate professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. Two years later he was made an honorary surgeon of the Royal College of Surgeons. After leaving Johns Hopkins, he went to Harvard where he now is Professor of Surgery. During the War, he served with the Harvard University Medical Unit...
...regards political stability, the Hellenic Republic was to be no better than the Monarchy. It was, perhaps, so far as it concerned foreign affairs, the price which Greece had to pay for getting rid of the royal house at the only time it was of any use to her; for one of King Georgos' sisters was the Crown Princess of Rumania, the King's wife was a daughter of the King and Queen of Rumania and one of the King's brothers-in-law was the King of Yugo-Slavia. Queen Marie of Rumania had cleverly set the stage...
There, in the nation's capital, a triumph was being prepared. King Haakon, who had followed Amundsen's vicissitudes with avidity, would send royal carriages to meet the heroes at the water. He would await them at the palace, ready to pin upon them the Royal Order of St. Olaf,* exhibit them to his subjects from a balcony, welcome them with the great of Norway at a state banquet. The day after, prominent officials would have their chance to make speeches recalling the Viking days, at ceremonies to be held in old Fortress Akershus. A male chorus numbering...