Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might fall below 90? and they would take a loss. Their best bet now was to sit tight and wait for the Canadian dollar to show what it could do. This week, a few hours after trading opened, it was selling at 94½? in New York, 95? in Montreal and 96½? in London...
...experiment seemed to be a dismal failure. The young researcher at Montreal's McGill University had been injecting ovarian hormone extracts into rats, hoping to find evidences of a new hormone. Instead, after careful autopsies, he found only evidences of poisoning such as he got with injections of substances picked at random from the laboratory shelves. The rats' adrenal glands were enlarged, the thymus wasted away and the stomach ulcerated. Dr. Hans Selye concluded sadly that he had been wasting his time. Then it struck him: none of the substances which he had injected had directly caused death...
...often the case, a momentous discovery had been made by accident. Last week, 14 years after his bittersweet experiment, Dr. Selye returned to Montreal after a triumphal tour of the medical capitals of Europe and the Americas. He had given countless lectures on his theory of stress and collected a hatful of medals and awards. Still young (43) and eager, he plunged back into the studies of stress and hormones which he expects will keep him busy the rest of his life...
Built-in Regulator. Hans Selye (rhymes with tell yea) was born in Vienna and took his M.D. and Ph.D. at Prague. Soon he settled at McGill to teach biochemistry, and added a D.Sc. there. In 1945 he switched to the University of Montreal. His 1936 paper on stress, as the cause of death in his experimental rats, attracted no more attention than Alexander Fleming's first report of penicillin-and it may prove no less important to suffering mankind...
Readers of Montreal's French-language daily Le Devoir, an ultra-nationalist newspaper closely associated with the Roman Catholic Church, have been getting some odd slants on the Korean war in the last two weeks. Samples...