Word: clermont
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...professor of French Literature at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, has recently been elected to an honorary membership in Le Cercle Francais. Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the United States is the honorary president...
...professor of French Literature at the University of Clermont-Ferrand...
...professor of French Literature at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, but has spent many months at Harvard in the past. He is best known for his recent book. "Benjamin Franklin, the Apostle of Modern Times," a biography of the great Philadelphian...
...claws, burned hart's horn, toads, newts, serpents-these were medi- eval medicaments whose use has not yet entirely disappeared. Last week the American Medical Association reported a Frenchman's use of viper heads as a diuretic. Professor G. Billard of the Uni-versity of Clermont was consulted in a young girl's case of scarlet fever. Her kidneys would not function. Professor Billard had recently prepared an ancient diuretic which the French pharmacopoeia had dropped in 1884. He had soaked viper heads in alcohol, macerated the heads with chopped meat and salt water, filtered the concoction...
...Legend of Bibendum's conception: Some one saw a pile of tires heaped up in the Michelin factory at Clermont-Ferrand, France, and fancied a grotesque human resemblance. A cartoonist named O'Gallot was commissioned to make the pile of tires into a trademark. Soon along the highways of the world appeared the inflated figure of Bibendum, so called because he originally appeared holding a goblet of wine, and with the slogan Nunc est Bibendum ("The time has come to drink"). The blurbal application of the slogan was that Michelin tires "drank up" the shocks and bumps of travel...