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The Best of Each? Koestler's own preference, like that of most current prophets, is far less pungent and persuasive than his analysis. He has no wish to obliterate the teachings of the Yogi and the Commissar in toto; he is idealistic enough to hope that the best of...
The new Woodward-Doering process is not a synthesis. It is a method of extracting quinidine (hitherto derived chiefly from a variety of the cinchona tree, growing only in Java) from quinine itself. Since widely used atabrine has largely displaced quinine in the treatment of malaria, part of the stockpile...
The development of jazz in America is the theme of another discussion, while the two final programs are devoted to "Modern Americana in Music," a final synthesis of the growing American tradition in music, and a glance into the future of music in the Americas.
In spite of his seven-league-boot habits of scholarship and composition, Will Durant is a master of synthesis arid luminous narrative. Caesar and Christ, third volume of the monumental Story of Civilization which he expects to finish by 1955 (already published: Our Oriental Heritage; The Life of Greece), may...
Dam, Doisy and Vitamin K. Drs. Henrik Dam and Edward Adelbert Doisy share the 1943 medicine prize ($29,500.07) for discovery and synthesis, respectively, of vitamin K, the "blood-coagulation vitamin." This is the fifth time vitamin research has won a Nobel prize.