Word: sheffield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike the book, the film version of From Here to Eternity does not bury its dramatic aspects under a heavy mass of superfluous detail and fuzzy verbiage. Where James Jones spent pages describing the torments of the penal stockade at Sheffield Barracks in Hawaii, director Fred Zinneman achieves the same effects by a few shots of a brutal guard and several whispered conversations. The scenario is a masterpiece of ingenuity and economy; furthermore, it manages to take such material as a syphilitic husband, a wanton wife, a soldier-infested brothel, and the ordinary obscene talk of the Army and translate...
...biological chemistry and head of a research laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital. Krebs was summarily fired from his university post by the Nazis; fortunately he was invited to Cambridge University, where he arrived "with virtually nothing but a sigh of relief and a few books." Later he moved to Sheffield as professor of biochemistry...
...Fritz Lipmann, who last year was made a professor of biochemistry, has been nominated for a prize by Stockholm's Caroline Medical Academy, selection body for the Nobel Foundation. He will share the prize with Dr. Hans A. Krebs, of Britain's Sheffield University, who also has done significant work in protein chemistry...
Three weeks of steadily splendid weather in western Massachusetts had degenerated into full drought conditions, and the Authorities were worried. Not only would arid reservoirs and careless campers soon produce uncontrollable forest fires, but meanwhile, such communities as North Adams and Sheffield were having to neglect drinking, bathing and other amenities...
...years the 500 employees of Sheffield machine tools factory "mashed" (Sheffield lingo for brewed) their own tea at midmorning, lunchtime and midafternoon. They brought their own tea, milk, sugar, mugs and teapots, got boiling water from the firm's gas boilers...