Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barnes started the work 50 years ago by chasing butterflies in the Rockies on his vacations. Soon his hobby became famed. Friends, collectors, strangers sent him specimens. At an auction sale in a French town, he bought the collection of Dr. Oberthur, French scientist, discovered in it insects brought to Europe in 1829 by English explorers looking for a northwest passage to India. Three other of his valuable butterflies, now extinct, came from the swamp which was drained to build San Francisco. He paid $10,000 per year to collectors who went to Baffin Bay, Labrador, the tropics to find...
...each boat a radioman worked hour after hour, sent into the ether offers to Dr. Gunnar Horn, scientist aboard the Bratt-vaag, for "exclusives" on the story, pictures, diary. Each pleaded with him for a midocean rendezvous at a designated point in the Arctic. Each could only hope and pray that the message would be received, that the Brattvaag would be there, or that they would happen upon...
When a dog starts to run wildly, most people at once assume that he is rabid. But more likely he has running fits, a canine disease harmless to humans. Last year The Sportsman (monthly) asked for money to pay a scientist to find out why dogs have such fits. Many a dog lover responded generously. Dr. L. Raymond Morrison of Harvard Medical School was engaged to do the work. Because at the end of the year's research the investigation is not completed, The Sportsman is making another appeal this month for $4,000 to continue Dr. Morrison...
...bodies, well preserved. From the clothing of one the discoverers took a pedometer, excitedly read the engraved name of Salomon August Andree. A 33-year mystery? was solved. They knew for certain now that the other two were the bodies of Knut Fraenkel and Nils Strindberg who, with Swedish Scientist Andrée, vanished in 1897 in an attempt to fly across the North Pole in a balloon...
Because Statesman & Scientist Benjamin Franklin won his fame in Phila- delphia, few but historians are prone to associate him with Boston. He was Boston-born Jan. 6, 1706, son of Josiah Franklin, a tallow chandler. Not until 1723, after he had written many an essay for his brother James's New England Courant, "first sensational newspaper in America," did Benjamin Franklin migrate to Philadelphia...