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...Benjamin Dek. Wood, associate professor of Educational Research, Columbia University, as consultant to the Grant Study in the Department of Bygiene; Ph.D. Columbia...
...ambulances. Somehow Nurse Salvación was left behind. So, too, was a U.S. Marine, wounded in the throat by a bomb fragment and calling for help from a nearby trench. Rebecca Salvación crawled from her trench, made it to a building, summoned an Army doctor, Captain Benjamin Kysor of Oswego, N.Y., to help...
Since modest Biographer Berry has had the good sense to let Bowditch's story tell itself with a minimum of literary asides and insights, the result is a simple, read able, well-researched life of a remarkable American-a kind of deepwater Benjamin Franklin who by grinding spare-time study made himself the outstanding U.S. mathematician and astronomer...
Least known are the medical uses of wetting agents, first revealed in 1935 by Germany's Gerhard Domagk, who was awarded but could not accept a Nobel Prize (1939) for his work with prontosil (forerunner of sulfanilamide). In 1939 Dr. Benjamin Frank Miller of the University of Chicago was looking for an agent which would carry germicides into every nook & cranny of the teeth. Paging through LIFE one day, he ran across a picture of American Cyanamid's famous ducks being scuttled with its "Aerosol" wetting agent. Miller tried the same product on teeth, found that it penetrated...
...Benjamin Disraeli (on hearing from William Ewart Gladstone that "you will come to your end either upon the gallows or of a venereal disease"): "I should say, Mr. Gladstone, that depends upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress...