Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hulking, booming Otto Neurath, who gives the impression of oozing vitality from every pore, is a social scientist of international distinction. Son of the late Economist Wilhelm Neurath, he was born about 50 years ago in Vienna, became a professor of economics at Vienna's commercial Hochschule. In that city he founded and directed for nine years a museum of social and economic sciences. Of strong socialist leanings in politics, he now lives in The Hague, is writing a book to be called The Life of Modern Man. Some years ago. Dr. Neurath devised a method of conveying social...
Born. To George Vanderbilt, age 23, scientist, explorer, sportsman, heir to half of the $20,000,000 estate left by his father, the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; and to Lucille Parsons Vanderbilt; a 6-lb. daughter, their first child; in Honolulu...
...girl. A native woman bears a still-born child at the same time, steals the white girl, whom she calls Naia, raises her as her own. From England, when Naia is 16, comes her real brother and his friend, tall, grey-eyed Alan Hardie, a promising young scientist, son of a stiff-necked general. Hardened Melodramatists Nordhoff & Hall are careful to keep these complications from turning into a story of incest, end their tale with the marriage of Naia and Alan, their shipwreck on a deserted island, rescue, tragedy...
...spat into a puddle. Instantly, to their amazement, a jet of diabolic yellow flame spurted from the water, fizzled for several seconds before going out. When he passed the same way a quarter-hour later, the students were still arguing about how he did it. What the scientist had done was to conceal a bit of metallic sodium in a piece of paper in his hand. Sodium is so active chemically that it burns on contact with water. Dr. Wood's histrionics while spitting concealed the fact that he simultaneously dropped the sodium into the puddle...
Literature. In 1917, Dr. Wood relaxed from his more serious labors by composing and publishing a book of nonsense verses, illustrated by himself. Artistic ability seems to run in the Wood family. The scientist's daughter Margaret (Mrs. Victor C. White of Cedarhurst, L. I.), eldest of his four children, painted a portrait of him which will be presented by a group of friends to the University next week. It appears on TIME'S cover...