Word: barger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hormones. Professor C. G. Barger and others discussed them. They are organic chemical compounds in the blood stream, in units of ultramicroscopic size. They actuate bodily organs much as nerves do, but more slowly, requiring to be transported bodily to the organs, like letters, whereas the nerves flash their stimuli like telegrams. The best known hormones: insulin, thyroxin, adrenalin, pituitrin...
...that they are not impetuous and magnifying. TIME readers know that the American people are rather conceitedly bigoted and consequently they at once assume an "international mind"-a "worldwide understanding"-which the reading of TIME gives quite naturally-quite without notice. TIME should not despair that such as Mrs. Barger, (TIME. July 25), Miss Hollis (TIME, July 18), Mr. Downing, (TIME, July 11), should cancel their subscriptions-the majority of TIME readers are proud of TIME-are proud that they are TIME readers. Especially, commend the Foreign News Department and the Chinaman. I have made a detailed study of China...
...Barger v. Barger...
...subscriber to TIME, for heaven for bid that I should sink so low. I am sorry to say your magazine must come into our home, since my husband is a sub scriber. Therein lies the bone of contention in our happy home. Every time Mr. Barger reads TIME, he will sit up, chuckle to himself and exclaim, "I would rather give up you than give up TIME. I get so much pleasure out of that magazine." Immediately there follows a battle of words. It is beyond my comprehension how people can get enjoyment out of a magazine that...
...ARTHUR BARGER...