Word: extract
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Beneath the Minnesota ground, however, there is a low-grade ore called taconite, which has never been developed-for lack of a cheap, practical way to extract it. Several years ago, researchers at the University of Minnesota perfected a method of crushing the rock, extracting the ore by magnets and compressing it into pellets containing 60% iron (v. 50% for the open-pit ores...
...that there are no sinners [in the Senate] except the other fellow. Each man is busily engaged in trying to extract the mote from his brother's eye, and is not at all concerned about the beam...
...following extract is from one of my husband's letters [he is a Transportation Corps major in Korea...
Besides drug addicts, there are the usual thrill-seekers who take goof balls instead of marijuana, quite often ending up as confirmed addicts of the opium (hop, brown stuff) derivatives, such as morphine (M), heroin (H, horse, white stuff), or the coca-leaf extract, cocaine (C, Charlie, snow), which combined with heroin is injected as a "speed-ball...
...form. Then he went to work on mice. He found that a mouse could be injected with 2½ to 3½ times the lethal dose of viper venom, and still survive if promptly given an injection of king snake serum. Better yet, he found that his king snake extract was three to four times more effective than a commercial preparation made, by a far more difficult process, from the blood of venom-injected horses...