Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kamongo" Mr. Smith takes us on a scientific adventure into the great universe and from there into the world of the unknown. It is semi-fictional in form. Two men on a ship in the sweltering heat of the tropics get into conversation. One is a young scientist returning to Africa to continue his exploration, the other an Anglican missionary going back to his jungle parish. As often happens they talk about their careers; and the scientist, a bit embarrassed at talking so much, tells of his search for Kamongo, the lung fish, who, when the dry season domes along...
...scientist enlarges from the slow of this strange freak of Evolution to the consideration of Evolution as a whole and of life itself. And prodded by the other's worried questioning, he tells his theory of the cause of Evolution, that it was purely a series of accidents things and developments that just happened. But the priest doesn't find this solution satisfactory, it does not tie up with his belief in a personal God and a great purpose behind life. Finally the scientist is led on to define his won theory of vital forces, which he conceives as whirlpools...
Junior Kudos. The Langmuir $1,000 prize for the stimulus of brilliant young chemists went to Dr. Oscar Knefler Rice, 29, son of an immigrant Viennese scientist, Harvard instructor, a prodigy in the application of higher mathematics to the problems of atomic and molecular physics...
...bushy-haired professor, who looks precisely like a cartoonist's idea of a scientist, seems ready to pop with excitement as the balloon is being readied at Dubendorf Airdrome, Zurich. He has his long-awaited assurance of at least 18 hours of good weather. Not only must he be sure of fair skies to receive him. but also that no layer of clouds shall blind his descent. Now the great yellow cotton bag, of 14,000 cu. ft. capacity, is laid carer fully out on the field by 100 workmen, sweating under a blazing sun. The shroud lines which...
...nervous breakdown. He eluded them, leaped into McGregor Creek. Died. George Shinault, Washington policeman who killed William Hushka in the Bonus army riot (TIME, Aug. 8); of a bullet wound inflicted while breaking up a street fight; in Washington, D. C. Died, Dr. Graham Wallas, 74, sociologist, political scientist, author (Human Nature in Politics, The Great Society, The Art of Thought); in Cornwall, England. Distinguished in appearance, Dr. Wallas was a witness at George Bernard Shaw's wedding in 1898, was mistaken for the bridegroom, nearly married to Mrs. Shaw. Died. Rin Tin Tin, 14, famed German shepherd...