Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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changing field. To this end, he virtually joined the staff of Memorial Hospital and its associated research laboratory, the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. TIME Researcher Leona Farmer went with...
Daily, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Leonard went through Memorial and Sloan-Kettering, talking to biochemists, organic chemists, physical chemists, physicists, virologists, clinicians, surgeons, etc. He talked to Dr. Rhoads for hours on end, and at night read through the foot-high stack of scientific papers the director had given him. Some of them were as yet unpublished. Most were written in science's highly technical terminology, and in the process of reading them Leonard found himself learning new languages like that of cytology (the study of cells...
...opening day, Texas' Tom Connally, dressed in a rumpled linen suit, took the floor to begin the case for the North Atlantic Treaty. With no galleries to play to -in the old semicircular chamber where the Monroe Doctrine was first pronounced 126 years ago-Tom Connally went right to the point...
...part in the Goethe festival, but waited in Manhattan, working on his address and resting. Though Poet-Philosopher Goethe is one of his favorite subjects (in 1928 he received the city of Frankfurt's Goethe Prize*), he had not really wanted to come to the U.S. When he went from Lambarene to Giinsbach last October for a visit, he found at least six invitations to address Goethe bicentennial events, but he was so tired that he refused them all. Then from the University of Chicago's Chancellor Robert Hutchins, chairman of the U.S. Goethe Bicentennial Foundation, came...
...went to see a coal dealer," he wrote, "who was complaining that people weren't yet laying in their winter supply of coal this summer. He gave me the names of some customers and I went around to talk to them...