Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is not eliminating gravity, as Englishman Tate last week declared that he had done. No scientist yet knows just what gravity is, and until someone does know it cannot be overcome...
Died. Dr. Albert Schneider, 65, able scientist & criminologist of Portland, Ore.; from cerebral hemorrhage; in Portland. Dr. Schneider devised an apparatus for registering brain reactions known as the lie detector...
...William Keen, surgeon and scientist...
...must to all, Death last week went to Mrs. Augusta Emma Simmons Stetson, battling, schismatic Christian Scientist who long claimed that she would never die. She died, hiding from mortality in her nephew's home at Rochester, N. Y., of heart disease...
...lacunae. She deliberately made them. She would never tell her age (it was about 87), nor her girlish life, nor permit her elderly photograph be taken, nor tell the source or spending of the millions of dollars given her. Luxuriously she spent and lived. The First Church of Christ Scientist which she founded in Manhattan a generation ago, when Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy was still her friend, cost $1,250,000. Next door is her splendid mansion. It cost scores of thousands. Each year since 1920 she spent more than $250,000. In five years she spent...