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Hopkins   /hˈɑpkɪnz/   Listen
Hopkins

noun
1.
United States educator and theologian (1802-1887).  Synonym: Mark Hopkins.
2.
United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873).  Synonym: Johns Hopkins.
3.
English poet (1844-1889).  Synonym: Gerard Manley Hopkins.
4.
English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947).  Synonym: Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins.
5.
Welsh film actor (born in 1937).  Synonyms: Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Anthony Philip Hopkins.



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"Hopkins" Quotes from Famous Books



... increase in frequency, until, by simply increasing the proportion of alcohol, the heart stops in diastole, as perfectly paralyzed as are the coats of the smaller vessels throughout the system. This was clearly demonstrated by the experiments of Professor Martin of Johns Hopkins University, to determine the effects of different proportions of alcohol on the action of the heart of the dog; and those of Drs. Sidney Ringer and H. Sainsbury, to determine the relative strength of different alcohols as indicated by their influence ...
— Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why - What Medical Writers Say • Martha M. Allen

... (last week) Bryan Seery was executed at Mullingar. The conviction took place under the following circumstances:—Some time since Sir Francis Hopkins was shot at by a man in Westmeath; Sir Francis tried to seize the assassin, but he escaped; and afterwards Seery was captured. The sole witness to the prisoner's identity with the assassin was the prosecutor: the defence ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... in the ambitions and the interests of Asian nations themselves. It was precisely this movement that we hoped to accelerate when I spoke at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore in April 1965, and I pledged "a much more massive effort to improve the life of man" in that part of the world, in the hope that we could take some of the funds that we were spending on bullets and bombs and spend it ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... Says Mr. Hopkins: "There is no reason to consider the antichristian spirit and practices confined to that which is now called the church of Rome. The Protestant churches have much of Antichrist in them, and are far from being wholly reformed from the corruptions ...
— The Revelation Explained • F. Smith

... by insect pests to forests and forest products (in the United States) have been estimated by Dr. A.D. Hopkins, special agent in charge of forest insect investigations, at not less than $100,000,000.... It covers both the loss from insect damages to standing timber, and to the crude and manufactured forest products. The ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday


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