Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other living man in private life can lay claim to so widely known a name." This is another broad statement?but what artist in any art, what business man in any business, what scientist in any science can rival...
...Station Agent. Some score of years ago there was a young railroad ticket agent in Derbyshire. He had a great ambition to be a scientist, but he had no money for an education. So he sat and ate out his heart behind a ticket window. His name was Bullock...
...forever after discuss it. They did it to Gambetta. They have done it to Anatole France, the distinguished novelist who died last year (TIME, Oct. 20, BOOKS). The weight of his brain was 1,017 grams, whereas the average weight of the human brain is 1,390 grams. Some scientist declared that it is now established that the profundity of intellectual power is not dependent on physical size. Others contended that, in M. France's case, the lack of weight was more than counterbalanced by strange types of convolutions separated by deep sulci (grooves...
...adroit indirection, the author acquaints you with the sad end, on the scaffold, of Arthur Lomax. The colored glasses he bought in Egypt so marvelously altered the aspect of life that he married Miss Whitaker, murdered his yachtsman host, Bellamy, and left Bellamy's money to Artivale, the scientist of the cruise-all with the loftiest of motives. In court, bereft of the illusive spectacles, normal Arthur Lomax could quite understand the jury's incredulity. His was the tragedy of the man who made believe and had his dream come true...
THUS FAR-J. C. Snaifh-Appleton ($2.00). Rushing alongside the horny-hided thriller-reader, Writer Snaith delivers pointblank a tale about a scientist who grafted the fourth dimension upon the fetus of a high anthropoid. The offspring was nerveless, bloodless, sexless, deathless, supra-intelligent and psychic. Unforturfately, it was also sadistic and clawed out a number of people's carotid arteries, among them that of the scientist. Also unforunately, a very biological biologist and a very bemonocled amateur detective pile the book with slovenly heaps of "scientific" jargon, consisting chiefly of proper names that Writer Snaith looked...