Word: crystallizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Synthetic Insulin. John J. Abel and H. Jensen of Johns Hopkins reported that they had reduced insulin (hormone which controls the body's sugar) to crystals of relatively simple chemical content. In the crystals they found 3% sulphur, considerable nitrogen, five different ameno-acids. They are working to identify remaining insulin crystal constituents. When that is done they feel that they can make synthetic insulin much cheaper than the present animal product. Insulin is one of the four hormones so far isolated. Of the others: adrenalin, thyroxin and pituitrin...
...period gown of cream crepe and silver (or was it crystal?) seemed a part of her. She was alternately serious and arch; now she reflected the lights and shadows of the land of her birth; now she was the spirit of the beauty of Paris, where she has a home; now she might be demanding that her fairy dreams might be also philosophical...
Plans are under way for transferring the Harvard University bindery to its new quarters in the "Crystal Palace", the southern extension of the Boylston Chemical Laboratory, during the Christmas vacation, at which time the Chemistry department will enter the new Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratory...
...powers of. . . ." Before Senor Soto y Gama could specify what powers he and his propose to defy, the Congress hall shivered slightly and Deputies cried, "Earthquake! Earthquake!" Then they hopped and bolted out the door like prairie gophers. Late escapers said that before they got out the huge crystal chandelier of the Chamber was swinging through an arc of 30 degrees. Had it dragged down the roof and fallen, Mexico's Congress might have been squashed at a single blow. Instead the Earth trembled very gently from 9 p. m. until 3½ minutes past, then settled down...
When it came to perfume bottles, Artist Wilson produced a starkly simple cylindrical form with silver cone stopper, developed in blue and crystal. Modernistic perfume bottles are legion...