Word: alphas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition, iron added to the prematures' diet to prevent anemia destroys vitamin E. While practically nothing is known about the workings of vitamin E in the human body, this was a lead worth following up. The Owenses arranged to get a special preparation, d-1 alpha tocopherol acetate, rich in vitamin E, to be given in a water base...
Died. Edward Lee Thorndike, 74, since 1904 Columbia University's famed educational psychologist; of a heart ailment; in Montrose, N.Y. One of the creators of the original Army Alpha intelligence test used in World War I, he wrote more than 450 books and articles on experimental psychology and the nature of learning...
Court). Also, as a onetime director of Alpha Cement Ltd., he knew that business inside...
...Amherst chapter of Phi Kappa Psi was disbanded in December 1948 by order of the fraternity's national organization after a short trial in Chicago for its refusal to depledge the Negro member. Reorganized as Phi Alpha Psi, the society returned to the Amherst campus with the Negro as a member and has retained the prestige of the entire college community for its decision...
...Willem Jacob Luyten announced that he had discovered a double star which is only about six light years (35 trillion miles) away from the solar system. It is thus the nearest known star that can be seen regularly in the Northern Hemisphere. (The nearest of all stars, Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri, are 4.3 light years away, but are usually visible only.in the Southern Hemisphere...