Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glycogen. The $5,000 annual award of the Sugar Research Foundation went to Austrian-born Dr. Carl Cori of Washington University Medical School, St. Louis. Pale, tall Dr. Cori, 51, specializes in sugar, the basic fuel of human metabolism. For 20 years he has traced the progress of sugar through the body, watched it turn into glycogen (animal starch), measured how much glycogen is stored in the muscles and liver...
With six "beautiful Rogersgirls" scheduled to give a few lucky Yardlings some new and different interpretations of an otherwise old and basic maneuver, amateur beauty will be on its mettle tomorrow. Strong contingents from Radcliffe, Wellesley, Simmons, and assorted other female institutions promise a flight to the finish...
...almost everyone knows by now, raw material, labor, and manufacturing costs set basic prices, which, in turn, are marked up as goods flow towards shops and consumers. Business men and farmers are well aware of this. But, with unholy naivete, they still hope to sense the imminent price crash in time to slow down or temporarily halt production, having squeezed enough profits out of exorbitant prices to tide them over. This gamble lay behind the NAM's successful war against the OPA last year, and it is this same gamble that seems dangerously close to being lost in the near...
Weighing the merits of different methods of composing the joint yearbook, the Class Committees finally assented to the basic stipulations presented by the two Album Committees. As approved yesterday, the book will contain both Classes under one cover, with autonomy to be retained only in separate Senior sections--student pictures and biographies...
...suggestion has been made that commuters contribute to their library volumes they no longer need. But the number of books secured in this manner would be far from adequate. The University should purchase or procure from Widener enough books to stock a library of at least 2500 basic texts and reference works. Commuters should be allowed to check out books from this collection for overnight use at five or six o'clock in the afternoon in order to avoid remaining in the Square until the official liberation hour of the tomes on Widener's well stocked shelves...