Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural instincts a scientist, however, President Little did not give up his research. With Professor W. T. Bovie of the Harvard Medical School, he experimented with the application of ultra-violet rays to plant and animal diseases. With the aid of fused quartz produced by Edward R. Berry of the Lynn General Electric Company, results were produced and ultra-violet rays were pronounced valuable in the curing of rickets in children. President Little recently called the X-ray harmful to the human body, after he had experimented extensively with its effects on mice...
None appreciates this more than Natural Scientist Minnie Moore-Wilson of Kissimmee, Fla., authority on Southern bird life and Seminole Indians. Last week she raised her voice in piteous protest: "There are no great national parks in the East. A 100,000-acre track in the Everglades set aside as a sanctuary for wild life would be a primeval forest appearing almost exactly as it did when Columbus set foot on the North American continent . . . The areas most suitable for the location of a bird sanctuary are worthless for agricultural purposes. To attempt to cut up the Big Cypress Swamp...
...with no thought of academic distinction, until chance rather than intention on his own part, threw him under the spell of a teacher who inspired him with an abiding passion to find out certain things. Today, as president of the Michigan University, with a recognized reputation as a medical scientist there is no man in America with greater opportunities for usefulness to the Nation as a whole if he does not persist in raising the entrance requirements." G. P. Winahop In the New York Times
...third the size of any of the microscope-aided eye had ever seen). The short-waved ultraviolet ray will some day be made to carry images of bodies one 500-thousandths of an inch and smaller, by making the photographs in a vacuum.? Mr. J. E. Barnard, hatter-scientist of Jermyn St., London...
...Augusta F. Stetson, Christian Science Teacher and practitioner, was sent to Manhattan by Mrs. Eddy in 1886 to help organize the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in that city. She was for 17 years pastor and first reader of the church; differences with certain of the authorities caused her resignation...