Word: addison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Szent-Gyorgyi talked about Vitamin C last week, admitted that as a medicinal tool it was too new for fulsome claims. But its application was clearly not limited to scurvy, rare in modern civilization. With it he reported cures of pyorrhea, Addison's disease, such
...come until the much inning. Professor Whitney. Master of Kirkland House, Mrs. Whitney, Douglas V. Brown, former Head Tutor, suddenly trundled into sight on a flock of bicycles. After cheering on the team they left in a cloud of dust to pay a visit to Professor James Thayer Addison, Acting Master of Kirkland House last year...
Mayo Clinic's Dr. E. C. Kendall was interested in another gland, the adrenal. When a derangement cuts off its flow of hormone, its possessor turns yellow, grows weak, wastes away. Called Addison's disease, this rare ailment was ordinarily fatal until physicians learned to supply the needed hormone from animal sources. But obtainable hormone is scarcer than the disease, and many a victim has died for lack of it. Last week Dr. Kendall reported that Mayo Clinic has isolated the hormone in pure crystalline form, analyzed its chemical composition. With this knowledge chemists may be able...
Sanford Ross lives in a Manhattan apartment, summers in Rumson, N. J. He studied under George Luks and Thomas Benton, shows little of their influence. Sensitive to such Americana as gas stations, oil tanks, railroad crossings, Artist Ross is represented in the Addison Gallery in Andover, Mass. and New Jersey's Newark Museum...
...advertising of a book in the "Review" and the favorable tone of the criticism of it. I did not mean to imply, nor do I know, that there never is honest, "sober and constructive" criticism in the magazine's pages, I was referring to such phenomena as essays on Addison's small clothes and like subjects, and reviews like Mr. George Steven's recent "Syllabus of Syllables" (a parody comment on Miss Gertrude Stein's opera. "Four Saints in Three Acts.") Such items are "hogwash and balderdash," judged as criticism...