Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Butchers, bakers and candlestick makers, waiters, tailors and candy-store clerks must beware their teeth. So said German scientist K. F. Hoffman last week. Indoor work tends to wear down bodily resistance. Poor ventilation helps teeth decay; dusts discolor teeth; sugar and flour ferment to form enamel-destroying acids...
...very tall young man who is all these things grinned at the reporters and refused to be a personage. "I am here on a lecture tour," he said. "My purpose is to talk about lion hunting?as a hunter, not a scientist. I shall show motion pictures, and lantern slides, and generally conduct myself like any other lecturer." Questions flowed. Q: "Do you like to dance...
...Geneva, Switzerland, Bacteriologist Henry Spahlinger heard a sudden explosion and felt himself splashed with slime. The container in which he was culturing virulent tuberculosis germs had burst. Knowing well the danger of infection the scientist stripped off his clothes and for two hours scrubbed his equipment and laboratory with germ-killing lysol. What germs he had involuntarily inhaled he hoped would die off be fore they could harm...
...foot of the mountain. Had they known the rigors which they were to face before their return they would never, never have gone. They went. And soon the first ridge of old egg shells left by summer visitors to western Vermont met our gaze. Commander Fish, who is a scientist as well as a lecturer, a mountain climber and an Elk stopped to inspect these. Old Mumbley-Jumbley, one of the natives in the train, said that these shells were from local Baptists who each year made a pilgrimage to the spring about four feet above the first story...
...would be interesting to compare this man of universal interests to another man of only slightly loess universal genius Goethe. Here also was one who beside being one of the greatest if not the supreme poet of one era, was a scientist of note, and the prime minister of a principality. Indeed there seems o be a similarity between these two men of which not the least evidence is in the sincere admiration of the poet for the painter...