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...Young Lieut. William Woodward Outerbridge, worrying about his first command, gave the orders which fired the first U.S. shot in the war. On patrol outside the harbor, in the murky dawn of Dec. 7, he sent his report: his ancient destroyer, the Ward, had shelled arid depth-charged a submarine. His superiors thought it was "impossible...
Missourian. In Kansas City, a traveler stepped off a cross-country bus, asked the way to Woodward Avenue, indignantly insisting he was in Detroit. Replied the path-guider: "Well, I'm in Kansas City...
Died. Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, 80, British geologist, co-discoverer with Charles Dawson of the Piltdown skull, long believed England's oldest, near-human fossil (circa 100,000 B.C.); in Haywards Heath, Sussex...
Foremost among these discoveries are been the isolation of quinine by Woodward and Doering, the separation of blood plasma into its various chemical components by Dr. Cohn, the invention of an apparatus for transferring whole blood within the battle lines by Majors Emerson and Ebert, the gathering of much evidence that cancer is caused by glandular disturbances by Drs. Lieberstein, Hill and Feiser, and a new treatment for goiter by Dr. Astwood...
Halted as one of the greatest scientific achievements of the century, the complete isolation of quinine, which was formally announced last month by the Harold Company, was accomplished by two 37-year-old Harvard scientists, Robert B. Woodward and William E. Doering. In less than 14 months, they ended a hundred year old search for a method of producing the anti-malaria medicine synthetically. Commercial output, however, is still uncertain...