Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pillsbury. After taking many pictures of hydroponic plants, Pillsbury became so engrossed in the subject that he went to Evanston, Ill., enlisted the interest of a truck-body manufacturer, a hosiery executive, a lawyer, a banker. Then he went back to Berkeley, asked Gericke for technical information. The scientist flatly refused. Pillsbury then turned to the dean of the College of Agriculture who gave him a pamphlet, available to anyone who asked for it, containing some information on temperature, formulae, aeration, etc. Pillsbury and his associates were incorporated as Chemical Garden Co., with an initial capitalization...
...players are dark on a field yellow with late afternoon sunlight against a dark background of mine breakers and hills; Jury, whose procession of fat and lean brainless bourgeois figures directly recalled Daumier's treatments of the same subject; The Liberals, which presents, out on a limb, the Scientist, the Man who Sees Both Sides, the Indecisive Man, the Scholar, the Hysterical Mystic, the Infantile Man, the Man who Waits for the Right Time, while red-bannered masses see the forward and underneath...
...that the world of men is in bad shape. What distinguishes Anthropologist Hooton from most other calamity-howlers, however, is that his unflattering comments are backed up by a great store of information on the biological history and present condition of Homo sapiens, and that although he is a scientist he speaks not only with clarity but with...
Except for shivering, a human being has no protection against cold. When a newshawk asked Dr. Hardy if "goose pimples" were not a protection, the scientist replied that those protuberances were a relic of the days when the ancestors of men were covered by thick hair. The gooseflesh served to fluff the body hair into a more efficient heat-insulating covering...
Edgar Bright Wilson, Jr., assistant professor of Chemistry, has received the $1,000 award of the American Chemical Society which is awarded to "a scientist under 31 years of age and of unusual promise...