Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is on record only one unfavorable remark by "Popsy" Welch about another human being. Years ago he was told of a highly disparaging remark made about his colleague Dr. Osler by a Continental scientist. A few years later Dr. Welch was asked to express an opinion about the detractor. For a long time he hesitated, then mumbled in a hesitating voice that he must be "a terrible person...
...hollow hemisphere of strong, light silk or cotton, diameter varying from 22 ft. to 28 ft., with shroud lines running from the rim of the fabric to a harness worn around the body of the jumper. The parachute idea is credited to Leonardo da Vinci, mathematician and scientist as well as painter and sculptor, in 1495 (in his tome Codex Atlanticus...
Kaye Don, British speedster who will try to break Segrave's world record, drove his 4,000 h. p. Sunbeam-Coatelen motored Silver Bullet 200 m. p. h. in a practice run at Daytona Beach. Samuel Edward Sheppard, 47, Assistant Director of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories, a scientist so precise that he frequently lies prone to sight for his golf putts, last week received in Manhattan the gold medal which the late Chairman William Henry Nichols of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. created. In accepting, Dr. Sheppard, who often utters startling truths, declared that in many fields pure science...
...announcing the lecture Professor Parker said, "The German scientist is interested chiefly in the habits of insects, and has recently demonstrated conclusively that bees and similar insects possess a distinct sense of color, with which they distinguish the various flowers. By an ingenious arrangement of colored plates and dishes of honey water Professor Frisch succeeded in training bees to come to a particular color for their food, thus refuting other investigators who had maintained that all insects are color-blind...
...woman living alone, like the hero and heroine of some improbable fiction, on a desert island 500 miles from the South American mainland. The explorers asked some questions, left a year's supplies. They learned that the sun-browned, crudely clad gentleman was no castaway, but a German scientist, Dr. Karl Ritter. He once lived in Berlin, has a wife in Baden. Last July, tired of civilization, anxious to study the effect of uncooked foods on the digestion and sunlight on the skin, he projected the Galapagos venture. First he visited a dentist who extracted all his fallible human...