Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That women who expect to develop cancer of the breast should have their ovaries destroyed by knife, X-ray or radium was a suggestion which Dr. Wallace Edgar Herrell of the Mayo Clinic last week proposed in the American Journal of Cancer. His theory: female sex hormones affect the breast; mice deprived of their sex hormones do not develop cancer of the breast; cancer of the breast improves in some women after oöphorectomy (castration...
These are some of the questions which follow from the periodic dismissals which daily go unheralded and stir no comment, unless the teacher involved has a vociferous personal following. But they are questions that affect the University today, for, like any living organism, Harvard cannot continue to flourish unless it draws the best men in at the bottom and keeps them once it has wound its tentacles around them. For the Student Council to tackle these problems shows it is accepting its responsibilities in the College, and the investigation should prove the most important an far-reaching...
...fever treatment takes up to ten hours. Until Dr. Simpson learned to give patients salty water to drink to replace the salt lost in sweat, many became delirious. Dr. Neymann, a psychiatrist, last week averred that artificial fever up to 107.5° F. does not injure the brain or affect the mind...
...last week sent two communications: a 62-page annual report and a 13-page "Story of the General Motors Strike." From these, wrote President Sloan, the stockholder may "obtain as complete an understanding as is possible of the Corporation's position and of such influences as may affect its trend in the future." GM in 1936 sold 2,037,690 automobiles and trucks, exceeding by 7% the previous all- time high mark of 1,899,267 (1929). For these cars last year and for many another GM product, including Frigidaires, Diesel engines & locomotives, Delco heating, lighting and radio units...
While the annual report pronounced attempts to forecast undesirable, President Sloan's letter dealing with the strike left no doubt that the Influence which may affect the future of the world's No. 1 motormaker is Labor. Wrote...