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Word: switzerland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long researches on carbohydrate metabolism and oxidation also counted with the committeemen, but that they were largely preoccupied with Vitamin C this year was shown when they split the Prize for Chemistry between Haworth of England who mapped the vitamin's complex molecular structure, and Karrer of Switzerland who synthesized it. The Index's point was that a shy, soft-spoken U. S. chemist, Dr. Charles Glen King of the University of Pittsburgh, was the first to isolate Vitamin C and recognize it as such, that he announced his isolation in 1932, three weeks before Szent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Index Uproar | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Norwood Cox, the new coach engaged by the ski team, has had much experience in both ski competitions and coaching and was formerly jumping and cross country champion of Grenoble, Switzerland. He has coached for six years in America and has entered indoor exhibitions at the Boston Garden and at Madison Square Garden in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Have Promising Season Ahead As Cox Becomes First Regular Coach | 11/24/1937 | See Source »

...George and Queen Elizabeth, then Duke & Duchess of York, gave a ball in the British Pavilion at the Brussels Exposition-the last public function at which young King Leopold Ill's dearly beloved and beauteous Queen Astrid ever appeared. After her tragic death in a motoring accident in Switzerland (TIME, Sept. 9, 1935), the Duke of York returned to Brussels to represent his father, George V, at the funeral. Today, in so far as two crowned heads can be on natural and simple human terms, the British King and the King of the Belgians are fast friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: State Visit | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...gave Belgium three royal children: Princess Josephine Charlotte, now 10; Crown Prince Baudouin, 7; and Prince Albert, 3. Significant of the deep bond known to unite Astrid and Leopold was the insistence of the palace chamberlain on talking to her the night he telephoned to a resort hotel in Switzerland the terrible news that King Albert had been killed by a fall while mountaineering in one of the few rocky districts of low-lying Belgium. Leopold had answered the telephone, put Astrid on at the chamberlain's request, and afterward she broke the news that stark tragedy had made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: State Visit | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...rgyi of Hungary found a substance in animal adrenal glands, ascorbic acid, which turned out to be the same thing as Vitamin C, and extracted large quantities of ascorbic acid from paprika. Walter Norman Haworth of England plotted the architecture of the molecule and Paul Karrer of Switzerland synthesized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Four Prizes | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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