Word: woodwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...synthesize quinine, a problem that had baffled scientists for 90 years (TIME, May 15). Last week, sprawling before a desk in a cluttered laboratory at Columbia University, boyish, grinning Dr. William von Eggers Doering modestly admitted that he and his partner, Harvard's Dr. Robert Burns Woodward, had been at it again. This time they had found a way to produce large quantities of quinidine, a war-scarce drug widely used for heart ailments...
Civilians who are nervous-or who should be-about returning veterans got more good advice last week, in a little booklet by Manhattan Psychiatrist Thomas A. C. Rennie (TIME, May 29), and Luther E. Woodward, Ph.D. Title: Two Talks to Families of Returning Servicemen-When He Comes Back and If He Comes Back Nervous (National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Inc.; 15?). Gist: be patient and sympathetic (but not maudlin), use your imagination and common sense...
...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...