Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reilly rushed back to his office, returned to the Museum with his paper's crack photographer, William Zerbe.* While Zerbe took pictures of the albino frog, O'Reilly listened more carefully to Dr. Noble's explanation of the prodigy than he did to the scientist's indulgent prediction that the public would find the creature of little interest...
Last December the tawny, friendly islanders received the longest visit (ten days) from a scientist that any of them could remember. The visitor was Harry Lionel Shapiro, 32-year-old anthropologist of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Shapiro went to Pitcairn not as a nostalgic historian and romancer of the sea but as a student of what he called a ''laboratory experiment"-the development by cross-breeding of a new type of human from precisely traceable origins. In the ''Pitcairn Island Register" he found a record of births and deaths...
Night Life of the Gods (Universal), directed by the late Lowell Sherman, is an adaptation of the novel in which the late Thorne Smith played with the idea of a scientist who discovered how to turn humans into stone and statues into people, used his trick to revive a group of mythological effigies in a museum of art. Out of respect for the Legion of Decency, Director Sherman and his associates were compelled to clip their wings in following some of Author Smith's imaginative flights. Obviously on the screen it was impossible to have the gods and goddesses...
...Scientist. Not entirely to nearsightedness and fatuity does Mr. Prentice lay the blame for confusion and low milk output. The science of genetics is no older than the 20th Century, and it has been pursued mainly with laboratory animals-fruit flies, guinea pigs, mice, paramecia. It is not surprising that the average cattleman should never have heard of sex-linkage, crossing over, multiple allelomorphism, or know that inheritance is a complex mechanism controlled by genes, invisible unit carriers of hereditary characters...
...went around in a shabby alpaca coat, trousers inches too short. His beard covered his shirt front, so he never wore a collar. On rainy days he took his daily walk in the Prater wrapped in an old-fashioned green shawl fastened in front with an enormous pin. Like Scientist Albert Einstein he scorned socks...