Word: iso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second is the "work of art" school, and its, members are those who cast accusations at the literary historians. They iso'..te a work from its context and appraise its intrinsic value. Frequently these crities throw up a maze of technical jargon which only dampens the student's enthusiasm. They do, however, give him the tools with which he may articulate his opinions-the basis for genuine appreciation...
...about malarial mosquitoes which escape DDT campaigns? Four war-born drugs help their victims, the conference was told: 1) chloroquine, more active than quinine or atabrine, and much less toxic; 2) pentaquine, which has reduced the relapse rate in the vivax form of malaria from 98% to 25%; 3) iso-pentaquine, a variant of pentaquine, so far tried on only 100 cases; 4) Paludrine, which controls vivax malaria with a single dose...
...college professor (College of Wooster, Ohio). He left an associate professorship at M.I.T. in 1922 to become assistant director of S.O.I.'s research department. In his research days he developed refining processes on which he holds 90 patents, including one on Indiana's widely advertised oil, Iso-Vis. Standard has cashed in on these and other processes Wilson had a hand in finding. Wilson has cashed in too. His salary of $60,000 a year, as president of Pan American Petroleum and Transport Co., Indiana subsidiary, would now be $100,000. As boss of the third biggest...
Sixteen companies are now producing 100-octane gasoline; Standard Oil of New Jersey alone is making over 60 times as much as it did two years ago. Said President Gallagher: "Iso-octane-the ingredient which makes this fuel so powerful-cost $30 a gallon when first used in the laboratories. By 1933 the price had dropped to $16. A year later 1,000 gallons were sold to the U.S. Army for $2 a gallon. Today it is between...
...General Robert E. Wood, so-called iso-lationist-appeaser, of the America First Committee, hailed White's statement as sound stuff. So did Charles A. Lindbergh, who to many Americans symbolizes the narrowest isolation, the broadest appeasement. Immediately protests went up; several members resigned, complaining that the isolationist committee was getting too interventionist...