Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's Memorial had podophyllin (an extract of mandrake root) on its research list; but through a laboratory accident some of the stuff prematurely got into test-tube cultures of cancerous and normal cells. It stopped the growth of the cancer cells, had no effect on the normal cells. Meanwhile, National Cancer Institute researchers tried podophyllin on mouse cancers, got comparable results...
...Allen was cut off the air for the twenty-five seconds he took to read a rather funny, inoffensive, and absolutely clean line which intimated, at least to the self-appointed censors of NBC, that radio's organizational set-up might not be completely perfect. Other programs, attempting to extract laughs from the incident, were likewise gagged. In New York this week one John Sumner, of the Society for Supression of Vice, led three detectives in a raid on the offices of Random House publishers. For reasons best known to himself he ordered confiscated all ten available copies...
...Laugh. There were other matters to preoccupy the delegates. Correspondents reported the sudden popularity of the "Champagne Cobbler" (½ jigger syrup, ½ jigger lemon extract, 1 jigger curaçao, 1 jigger cognac, 1 chunk of pineapple, add champagne to taste, serve chilled. Price: $6.60). Even Molotov showed signs of gaiety. One evening, when movies were being shown at the Aero Club, he took special interest in a Russian animated cartoon involving the capers of three big bears. He was observed in convulsions of laughter and clutching his paunch when the biggest bear managed to outwit ths whole menagerie...
...refining process kill the virus? Loring and Schwerdt thought lowering the temperature might keep the virus alive. As part of a long process, they made an extract from the brains and spinal cords of polio-infected cotton rats, froze it. Then, letting it start to thaw, they whirled their material in an ultra-high-speed centrifuge (60,000 revolutions per minute) to separate its protein, and with chemicals refined the protein further. Eventually they isolated a particle less than two-billionths of an inch in diameter. The protein particle proved to be 80 to 95% pure virus; a billionth...
...Wisconsin University. At this point he got mixed up with Harvard, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the question of China's destiny. So that today, or on October 7, 1946, we find him asserting in a "Times" book review, "When we fail to bargain with Chiang Kai-shek and extract from his regime the long-promised reforms which alone can cut the ground from under Chinese communism, and which were implied would be prerequisite to our aid, were seem stupid, and our audience in Asia realizes we can be manipulated by our fears...