Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Research Corporation of America, making money from a process of electrical precipitation, but contributing all its earnings to the advancement of science, announced that John J. Abel has done more than any other scientist to promote human enjoyment of life; awarded...
...Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland, for some years Dr. Henry Spahlinger, famed scientist, has worked to perfect a remedy for tuberculosis. In 1919 he discovered a serum which attracted much attention from the medical profession; since then he has made steady advances, so that now his serum, far stronger than the original discovery, is said to cure an ordinary case in six months, a so-called "hopeless" case in a year and a half. But last week a couple of bailiffs threatened to take up their abode in the institute at Carouge. Dr. Spahlinger's creditors were getting anxious. Standing among...
...from hearing simultaneously the matrimonial differences of the slovenly young couple upstairs, the radio in 4-A, the quacking of the saxophone across the hall and the telephonic improprieties of the bachelor below? Steel girders, plaster and cement can muffle but never quite extinguish sound; but last week a scientist came forward with the statement that noise can be kept out of a room just as well as a snowstorm can; that a scream can be locked up. He, Dr. Paul Heyl, Chief of the U. S. sound laboratory (Bureau of Standards), has invented a soundproof partition, which he demonstrated...
...mental life of American universities is being "lowered to the dead level of mediocrity." The students are "required to do so much cheering in common that they begin to think alike and consequently to lose in initiative and freedom of thought." And on such grounds as these the Princeton scientist reaches the conclusion that in the European universities, despite their crippled condition, "there is more independence, and the spirit of investigation is more active, than in American colleges and universities...
...combination of the highest medical reputation with the surest literary touch, Dr. William H. Welch, aged 75, last week left his modest home in Baltimore, traveled to Manhattan. He went upon an errand dear to his heart, to speak a word which should carry across the distance between scientist and sick...