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3 stories matching professor
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:profess, professorship, profession, predecessor, prof, confessor
- The Professor Who Gave Colour Photography Away for Free
An Oregon experiment-station scientist stumbles on a way to fix true flower colours permanently in a photographic print — then walks into Seattle and refuses to patent it.
- The Vagrant Preacher: An Elderly Man’s Desperate Plea for Dignity in Spokane
Paul Hoffman, a German Lutheran minister turned job-seeker, was arrested for vagrancy after collecting donations from churchgoers. In his cell, he wept as he recounted his fall from grace.
- The Palouse Professor Who Helped Rediscover Heredity
Before Mendel's laws were famous, an agriculturist at the Washington State Experiment Station stood alongside three European scientists as a co-discoverer of them — and proved the principle with velvet-chaffed wheat.