Word: rasmussen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime Cook had arrived in Copenhagen, where he received a tremendous welcome, including a gold medal from the Royal Danish Geographical Society. A handful of exploring notables-Roald Amundsen, Knud Rasmussen, Otto Sverdrup, Major-General Adolphus Washington Greely-favored Cook's claim over Peary's. But in the U. S. the National Geographic Society assembled a quorum of experts who gave the decision to Peary, and a bigger gold medal (four inches across). The controversy has not yet died...
...rich in Vitamin C. But not everyone who tucks into this dish is assured of firm joints and healthy blood capillaries, for Vitamin C is a delicate thing, easily destroyed by combination with oxygen or improper cooking. Last week in Nature, Physiologists A. Høygaard and H. Waage Rasmussen of the University of Oslo, Norway reported the results of extensive potato-boiling. They found "16-19% more ascorbic acid [Vitamin C] left when vegetables are cooked in salt solution than when vegetables are cooked in distilled water." Reason: the salt prevents oxygen from destroying the vitamin. They also found...
...summer of 1912, George Rixon Benson, president of Chicago's Benson & Rixon Co. clothing store, and Millionaire George Rasmussen, head of National Tea Co. until his death in 1936, made a trip to Wisconsin in a high-sided Stearns touring car. Every night when he shed his goggles Tourist Benson was irked to find that, though his linen duster had protected his jacket, his trousers had got thoroughly dirty. Tourist Rasmussen, however, had solved that problem in advance, had a change at the end of a day: his tailor had made him an extra pair of pants...
...paid as high as $106,000 for a bull. Other leaders of the industry who get pleasure and relaxation as well as a sense of service to agriculture through their Hoistem breeding efforts are Colonel H. F du Pont of Delaware; Colonel Fred Pabst of Milwaukee-George Rasmussen of National Tea: E. H. Maytag of washing-machine fame: F. E. Murphy of the Minneapolis Tribune; Governor Lowden of Illinois; T.B. Macaulay of the Sun Life in Canada; Ogden Mills, Owen D. Young, Daniel Willard. . . . M. S. PRESCOTT...
President George Rasmussen...