Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Babies and hospitals made the headlines in Manhattan. When Dr. Robert Arthur Wilson of Brooklyn reported that he got 400 stillborn babies to breathe by injecting a drug called alpha-lobeline hydrochloride into the vein of their umbilical cords while they were held upside down, fellow obstetricians pounced upon him. Objection No. 1: Dr. Wilson used a drug which the A.M.A. has not approved. His retort: "We must not let babies die just because the A.M.A. has not approved the drug." Objection No. 2: He did not first try such standard methods of stimulating breath in the newborn as blowing...
...campus. Physics Professor Rudolf Walter Ladenburg, 53, and Research Associate Cletus Clinton Van Voorhis, 50, were so interested in their atom-smashing experiments that they had come back to the physics laboratory to work after dinner. For bullets they used neutrons. The neutrons were knocked out of beryllium by alpha particles from radium. The beryllium and 200 milligrams of radium sulphate, worth $4,000, were in a metal tube. One of the scientists started to solder a loose cap on the tube over a flame. The cap blew off. Some of the radium compound spurted into the faces, nostrils...
...Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy, Dr. Alfred C. Lane '83, former professor of Geology at Tufts College, and Dr. Alfred S. Romer, professor of Zoology are the speakers. The meeting is sponsored by the Harvard chapter of Gamma Alpha...
...called amino acids. Dr. Rose accordingly prepared and purified all the amino acids he knew of, fed them to baby rats together with synthetic carbohydrates, fats, salts and vitamins. Something was lacking. The animals failed to grow, wasted away, died. Then Dr. Rose succeeded in isolating another protein component: alpha -amino -beta -hydroxybutyric acid. When this was added to their food, the young rats grew and thrived. Thus the Illinois biochemists put their finger on the final, elusive substance that must go into a good synthetic meal for rats, and presumably...
...busy for varsity or fraternity athletics, Grandson Hughes devotes himself to a game of squash three times a week with Charles Seymour Whitman Jr., son of the ex-Governor of New York. He is a member of both junior honorary societies and like his brother, of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. Minor activities include membership in the Christian Association Cabinet, International Relations Club, Liberal Club, Model League of Nations, Model Senate and the Debating Council. Other prizes include a debating prize and a Latin prize...