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Example: Both Scientist Haldane and Lord Birkenhead feel that eventually the farmer will become extinct, driven off his land by great synthetic food factories which will make things to eat cheaper than they can be grown...
...good lawyer would, Lord Birkenhead did not at once reply to Scientist Haldane's charges, took time to make a thorough study of his adversary, ended by finding his weak point. Moreover the Earl did not see why he should not make a good thing out of answering the charge of plagiarism. He made a good thing of it last week by selling his 3,000-word answer to the Daily Express which ballyhooed it as "exclusive...
...quarry which will be the scene of their efforts was first worked several years ago by Dr. Walcott of the Smithsonian Institute, when this noted scientist, who has since died, exploited the region with unusual success. It appears that the rock structure of the quarry is of a very dense nature, and hence is extremely suited for the preservation of delicate fossils...
...stocks on hand in Germany were worth $30,000,000. Without this, the War would have ended within a few months. With it, the greatest care had to be used lest the supply give out too soon. Savior of the situation at this critical time was the great scientist Fritz Haber, who made practical the extraction, on a large scale, of nitrogen from the air. Thus began the commercial production of synthetic nitrogen. After the War, another German scientist, Carl Bosch, adapted the process to peacetime uses, and became chief of Europe's largest corporation, the I. G. Farbenindustrie...
Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, famed University of Chicago scientist (light speed), was last week discovered playing a tune he had "written several years ago for a child." The composition, "Grandpa's Lullaby," has a lively air, no words...