Master Henry

At Berghem, in Flanders, an alchemist told Bernard that the Philosopher s Stone could be obtained from vinegar and copperas (green iron sulfate). So Bernard experimented with those materials too. Then, hearing that Master Henry, confessor to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederic III, had achieved success, Bernard set out for Vienna. When he arrived, he gave a lavish banquet, which most of the Viennese alchemists, including Master Henry, attended. Master... 

Henry confessed that he had not found the Philosopher s Stone but claimed that he did know of a method for increasing a quantity of gold. It was agreed that the alchemists present should contribute 42 gold marks. In five days, Master Henry said, these would be increased fivefold. 

The good student who has mastered calculus will be able to follow the arguments. The way will be made easier by whatever he has learned of differential equations, vector analysis, group theory, and physical optics." Henry Eyring, Quantum Chemistry (New York Wiley, 1944) iii. 

Advances also often come in two parts, half upon signing the book contract, the other half upon acceptance of the final manuscript or publication of the book. This two-stage advance has led to interesting speculation about the prolific American short-story writer O. Henry. He was a master of surprise endings and often wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. The New York World paid him 100 for each of his stories, but because O. Henry did not always deliver his story by the deadline, his editor made sure only to pay half of the advance for the first half of the story and refused to pay the rest until the entire story was received. Some critics have said that this led to O. Henry stories with the second half nearly unrelated to the first Apparently, O. Henry sometimes rushed out anything he could for the first half of the story just to get the 50 and then ignored much of what he had written when completing the tale. 

Marie Curie, who became a masterful analytical chemist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903, along with her husband and Henri Becquerel, for their work on radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford the physicist (Fig. 10) always considered it a royal joke that his Nobel Prize, in 1908, was in chemistry. But it was a strange and novel kind of chemistry that Rutherford did. 

Chandra, Umesh, Master s Thesis, University of Bombay (1969). Merriam, C.Neale, and Thomas, Henry C., J. Chem. Phys., 993-995 (1956). 

It is not widely known that President Nixon was a casualty in the war against Britain s drag invasion of the United States. Had Nixon not taken up the most basic interests of the nation in launching a wholesale effort to shut down the chug trafficking — from the top down — it is likely that he would not have been unceremoniously forced out of office by Henry Kissinger, Ted Kennedy, and their British masters. 

W. H. Walker, A Master s Course in Chemical Engineering, J. Ind. Eng. Chem. 8, 746-748 (1916) W. K. Lewis, Effective Cooperation Between the University and the Industry, ibid., 769-770 R. T. Haslam, The School of Chemical Engineering Practice of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, J. Ind. Eng. Chem. 13, 465-468 (1921). On the School vis-a-vis cooperative courses of study and summer employment, see MIT s Henry P. Talbot, The Relation of the Educational Institutions to the Industries, ibid. 12, 943-947 (1920) the issues he raised seem eternal. 

The Chemistry Department of the newly formed King s College of Household and Social Science initially fell under the overall direction of Herbert Jackson30 of King s College, The Strand.18 Following Seward s departure in 1914, the staff based at Kensington Square were Henry Llewellyn Smith and an Assistant Lecturer, Helen Masters. 

Charles Henry Cramp, eldest son of William (1807-1879), was famous pioneer shipbuilder of Ameriea, who established shipyards on Delaware River near Philadelphia in 1830. The son was educated at the Philadelphia Central High School, after which he was employed in his father s shipyards, making himself master of each detail of ship construction. 

Variety is one of the most critical variables, and also the one least used in practice. Henry Ford was the master of eliminating variety. He said, You can have any color car as long as it is black. He was so successful at eliminating variety that the black Ford Model T became the best selling model in its time. He also brought down the cost of the car manifold and made it affordable to the common man. 

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