Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Research. Dr. Ivy's colleagues consider him one of the nation's top physiqlogists. He is an expert on stomach ulcers (TIME, April 28, 1941), aviation medicine (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941), cancer (TIME, Dec. 16, 1946), analgesia (pain killers), gall-bladder and liver complaints, diseases of old age. His proudest achievement: discovery of a hormone which he thinks shows promise as a stomach-ulcer cure (the hormone: enterogastrone, extracted from hog intestines...
...Illinois from Northwestern last fall, he insisted on freedom to putter in his laboratory. At Illinois, he is working (with 20 research assistants) on at least a dozen projects, including a "physical environment" laboratory to study effects of cold and high altitude, an institute on the diseases of old age, research on the kidney, on electrical treatment of infantile paralysis...
...right . . . [the man of the future] would probably have great muscular skill but little muscular strength, a large head, fewer teeth than ourselves, and so on. He would develop very slowly, perhaps not learning to speak till five years of age, but continuing to learn up to the age of 40, and then living several centuries...
...most pro golfers. By sheer persistence, he had earned $12,000 in prize money (compared to $50,000 his first season as a tennis pro). His score varied between seven under par and seven over par. Says Vines: "Tennis got too tough for me. I was beginning to age, and Don Budge helped me decide to get out of it. I can continue as a golfer for years-in tennis...
...lady had come from Europe, and was glad to be in the U.S. She had never seen a sorority initiation, and persuaded a teen-age friend to let her watch the secret ceremony of her high school sorority. What she saw horrified her; she could only hope it was not a fair sample of U.S. initiations. U.S. friends assured her that it was not typical of college sororities, but could not assure her that it was unique among younger girls. This was what...