Word: base
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point out that Leprosy is not only treated with chaulmoogra-oil, but also with gold compounds. This treatment has been introduced after the experiences gained by that of tuberculosis on a similar base, to which latter disease, Leprosy is related...
...base of a new general principle of chemotherapy, I succeeded in producing new gold compounds, which are incorporated through the skin, by simply rubbing them in. Thus the local reaction and the toxical amount, are avoided. The work is still in its experimental stage. Should the results prove in future to be so promising as they have been hitherto, I should be glad to furnish this new compound to the U. S. A. leprosy wards for trial...
...grew up in road-shows, later filled inkwells for a San Francisco rubber company, played in stock and finally in a picture, The Snob. Mary Pickford gave him his first big part (Heart of the Hills). In 1918 he married a girl who put on an act in his base-camp; later they were divorced. He married Leatrice Joy in 1921; they were divorced. He has a 92-ft. schooner called The Temptress, drives a Packard, plays tennis fairly well, golf badly, is careful with his money and reads Shakespeare. He dislikes romantic roles and thinks the best picture...
Capitalism, the profit system, bothers Mr. Young a good deal. He thinks society should be communal, that work should be held noble and money-getting base. These ideas, and his trial (at which he slept) for sedition with other Masses editors during the War, and his eccentricities, such as lying nakedly asprawl on his hill for sunbaths, make his Connecticut neighbors view "that c'toonist" with some alarm. They are reassured, though somewhat puzzled by his deep vein of quizzical, kindly humor. His life has been most unconventional, they feel, but they know it has been rich and gentle...
Beset by doubts, historical philosophers base their theories on one certitude. Civilizations are never static. They are always in motion, creatively toward stronger outpourings of their spirit or destructively toward decay and dissolution. Thus Western civilization, with its vaulting expression in Gothic cathedrals, Beethoven, da Vinci, Einstein, Manhattan's sun-smitten towers, is either seething onward toward mightier transactions, more luminous cultural & scientific manifestations, or suffering the nervous, senile disintegration which desolated Rome, Egypt, ancient China...