Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Jewish Hospital has as director of its research laboratory Harry John Corper, Chicago-born pathologist. He has as co-worker Nao Uyei, U. S.-educated Japanese organic chemist. The two pottered around with sputum, acids, dyes and mediums on which bacteria grow. And eventually they found that sulphuric or hydrochloric acid would best dissolve the elements of the sputum undesirable in isolating the tuberculosis bacteria, that crystal violet dye best brought out the shape of the germs, that they flourished best on a chunk of potato. Now practically every tuberculosis hunter uses their test...
Frank Maurrant, belligerently righteous stagehand, appears. He is the type that lives with his lower teeth bared. Filippo Fiorentino, music teacher, appears, bearing ice cream cones for everybody. Mrs. Hildebrand and tots appear in time to be caught by a social service worker as they come from the movies: they have been living on charity since Mr. Hildebrand ran off with another woman. More talk of the heat. The crowd disperses. It is quiet except for the rumble of the subway, the bell of a fire engine, the bark of a dog. Mrs. Maurrant's daughter Rose appears with...
...country. She is also chairman of the board of the American Creosoting Co., founded by her husband, and is said to have increased its business 30% within a few years after his death. During the presidential campaign, Dr. Work, frequently harassed, found in Mrs. Hert a faithful fellow worker. Mrs. McCormick, indeed, is said to have described her as a yes-woman for the doctor. Mrs. McCormick also stated, after the inauguration of the Hert boom, that possibly in another ten years there might be a woman who would merit a Cabinet position...
...horse of the Theatre Guild, is therefore not called upon to add Wings Over Europe to Major Barbara and Strange Interlude, her present assignments. The male actors are uniformly as good as Guild casts should be, acting the preposterous caricatures of the Cabinet members. Alexander Kirkland is Lightfoot, the worker of wonders...
...Feng, omniscient housekeeper to an army, was one of the first young Chinawomen to become a Y.W.C.A. worker. As such she was wooed by her impetuous, ambitious husband, who was then and for years afterward a passionate Christian, in the Old Testament, Cromwellian fighting sense. Today the Marshal's state of grace is a trifle uncertain. He has cast in his lot with the studiously non-Christian Chinese Nationalist Party...