Word: scien
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Large and jolly Victor Lord Roth schild, 53, the titular head of the Brit ish family, is a Cambridge don who has made a mark as philanthropist, scien tist and Labor peer, is also chairman of Shell Research. An expert on fertili zation, he once astonished BBC-TV viewers by bringing before the cameras an enormous model of a human sperm. (His daughter Emma, 15, this year be came the youngest woman ever admitted to Cambridge.) Like many Roth schild men and women who have made a tradition of volunteering for hazardous duty in wars from 1870 onward...
down. He and Jacques, he said, were not merely seeking adventure. "On the con trary," he insisted, "I wish to show that the bathyscaphe is a dependable scien tific device in which the father of a family may entrust himself without anxiety." He raised no objections when in 1960 Jacques cruised the good ship Trieste to the bot tom of the Marianas Trench, the deepest known place in the ocean, where the water pressure at 37,800 ft. is eight tons per square inch...