Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smile understandingly at his well-known eccentricities, make their pretty eyes look deep and sympathetic when he comes to the point of his discourse. Thus do the wily coeds, whose actual intelligence measures but 25 on a scale of 100, compensate for a ten-point deficiency in intellect, and extract grades equal to those attained by charmless male students whose measure of intelligence on the same scale is 35. Authority for this condition is Dr. George Thomas, president of the University of Utah, who lately cautioned his faculty members to guard against such insidious influence, prevalent in most co-educational...
With this quotation, the World printed the following extract from the New International Encyclopedia (p. 723, Vol. XIII...
What is the nature of social conditions existing in large office buildings? Recently the Japanese Government determined to find out, loosed a band of secret operatives upon Tokyo. From data gathered came a report last week. Extract: "Modern office buildings are veritable wooing quarters, where flirtations are taking place. The tendency to attempt marriage as a result of chance acquaintanceship outside the home naturally is alarming so far as the well-being of the nation is concerned...
...German surgeons who were in congress at Berlin last week, Dr. Carl H. von Noorden sent his report from his clinic at Frankfurt-am-Main. He wrote that he had succeeded in making an extract of animal pancreases. This extract he had reduced to powder then compressed into tablets. Patients whom insulin sickened could swallow his tablets. He called this extract "horment...
...fortnight ago Dr. Frederick M. Allen of Morristown, N. J., told the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology of "myrtillin," vegetable extract which Dr. Richard I. Wagner, also of Morristown, had isolated after mulling over many a hundredweight of Maine huckleberry leaves (TIME, April 25). At the meeting of the American Association of Physicians in Atlantic City, May 3, and at 'the convention of the American Medical Association in Washington, May 20, Dr. Allen expects to give more ample reports on "myrtillin...