Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. Carrel was, as usual, vacationing in a chateau near Lyons in his native France. And, as usual, what the Press wanted to hear him talk about was his famed assistant at the Institute. The small, bald, 62-year-old scientist duly obliged: "Lindbergh is considered . . . exclusively as a flyer . . . but he is much more than that. He is a great savant. Men who achieve such things are capable of accomplishments in all domains...
...board to administer his brand new Social Security Act, President Roosevelt named John G. Winant chairman for a six-year term. Appointed to a four-year term on the Social Security Board was Second Assistant Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Almeyer, 44, studious, Wisconsin-born statistician and social scientist. For a two year term the President picked Vincent Morgan Miles, 48, Fort Smith, Ark. lawyer, onetime member of the Democratic National Committee...
...Professor Harry Reginald DeSilva. Born 37 years ago in Pensacola, Fla., Harry DeSilva got a Ph. D. from Harvard, another from England's Cambridge, lectured at Canada's McGill. When he took charge of Massachusetts State's psychological laboratory three years ago, he was an imaginative, and mechanical-minded scientist, disillusioned with what he calls "pencil-&-paper" psychology and with antiquated gadgets which had changed little since Germany's Wundt, father of experimental psychology, devised them half a century ago. Dr. DeSilva studied the most modern apparatus he could find in the U. S. and abroad, became convinced that...
...piece entitled "Gossip About Emperors." Most of it was about bygone Emperors of China all of whom were disparaged. In passing New Life noted that the present Japanese Emperor is said to have a homely knowledge of biology, remarked that His Majesty might have achieved more as a scientist than he has as an Emperor. Mentioning that Emperor Hirohito of Japan has little real power, New Life then mentioned Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo as "the puppet of a puppet...
...example, the dying physicist, who is as essential to this school of film as the corpse to a murder mystery, announces a hypothesis that life may be indefinitely prolonged in a human being by broiling him over a phenomenally hot flame. With this point firmly in mind, the scientist's nephew Leo Vincey (Randolph Scott) and his associate (Nigel Bruce) begin paddling off to the Siberian wilds where a family legend indicates that an ancestor named John Vincey encountered such a flame 500 years before. Thereupon She ceases to be concerned with test tubes and laboratory riddles, becomes...