Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Said he: "The task of science is to supply as many legitimate human wants as possible with one foot-pound of energy∙... to extract the maximum of satisfaction to the race of our present reserves of energy." When coal and oil are gone, Science will turn to sunlight as man's source of energy. Reassuring to the insurance presidents was it to hear Caltech's Millikan, Nobel Prizeman of 1923, student of the Cosmic Ray and of subatomic energy (both of which he rules out as practical energy sources for mankind) declare: "Only the economic reason that...
...deep brown and even black, has been treated successfully. Announcement of that important fact came last week from the Long Island Biological Association at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., where Professor Wilbur Willis Swingle of Princeton and Joseph John Pfiffner developed the medicine. It is a purified extract, a hormone, of the suprarenal glands.* Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic have used the extract on some 30 cases of Addison's disease. One case reacted favorably in 48 hours. Thomas Addison (1793-1860), English physician, traced this disease named for him to derangements of the suprarenal glands. Victims...
...Tyrant. An unfailing source of excitement are the works of Rafael Sabatini, famed sword-&-cloakster. The Tyrant is not a dramatization of. any of the author's 25 novels, but amounts to an extract of all of them. The story is based on the conquests of Cesare Borgia in middle Italy...
...Nathan Straus had said: "When you give at death it is lead; when you give in sickness it is silver; when you give in health it is gold." Mrs. Conners believes that San Francisco's Drs. Walter Bernard Coffey and John Davis Humber can cure cancer with an extract of the adrenal glands, although the medical profession has been skeptical of "cure" and the doctors themselves insist that they have only an experimental promise (TIME, April 28 et ante). Last week Mrs. Conners summoned them to Manhattan, offered them her $1,000,000 Long Island estate as a laboratory...
...discoverers of the contaminated ginger extract cooperated with members of the Tennessee Board of Health. Although the poison now is known, doctors as yet have no cure for its paralyzing effects, which have rarely been fatal...