Word: perrin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instituted the High Council of Scientific Research Coordination, which has numerous subsections-e.g., mathematics, biology, hydraulics, chemistry, optics, ballistics, telecommunications-working closely with the Institute for Applying Scientific Research to National Defense. The Council's officers, members and associates include four Nobel Prizewinners-Jean Perrin, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie, Prince Louis Victor de Broglie...
Colgate University's Professor Porter G. Perrin also found a discrepancy between classroom English and the way most people talk, also tried to do something about it last week. His An Index to English* intended "to answer some common questions about English usage and style," makes no bones about being colloquial, passes as good usage in spoken English such a word as enthuse, such an expression as it's me, such pronunciations as ree'-search and ex-qui'-site. Professor Perrin thinks Americans had better stick to American words and not fool around with such tony...
Professor Perrin is witty, authoritative, not too cocksure. Though mostly avoiding dicta, he lays down...
...slang expressions are appropriate, they should be used without apology (that is, without quotation marks), and if they are not appropriate, they should not be used." Professor Perrin knows slang when he sees it: to park a car is general English; to park your hat is slang...
Contrary to first expectations, sulfapyridine cannot always be used without serums, for some patients vomit the drug immediately and cannot absorb a sufficient amount in their blood streams. And the preliminary typing of pneumococci for their appropriate serums still takes valuable time in pneumonia cases. But Dr. Perrin Hamilton Long of Johns Hopkins, first physician in the U. S. to test sulfanilamide, is already working with Dr. Eli Kennedy Marshall, who has synthesized a sodium salt of sulfapyridine, which will be injected directly into the veins and may make serums unnecessary...