Word: burdock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade for a clerk is bird-painting. A man must be patient, curious, hardy, sharp-eyed, indomitable beyond belief. He must lie immobile in brambles half the years of his life, or crouch in duck boats, shin up tall trees, wiggle all day through burdock. Thus he may discover the true expressions of contentment, fear, anger or mischief never seen in a stuffed bird. He may discover the true color of a bird's bill and feet, which fade quickly after death. He may discover such secrets as that the caracara of the Southwest has a reddish eye normally...
...unaware of the difference between insulin and inulin could have prepared the story of burdock cookies, TIME, Nov. 3. You give your proofreaders too free a rein...
...From burdock roots, whose clinging burrs ("beggar buttons") annoy rural promenaders, catch in hunting dogs' tails, John Christian Krantz Jr., 31, director of pharmaceutical research for Sharp & Dohme (Baltimore chemists), produced cookies and bread which diabetics may eat with benefit, he told the University of Maryland Biological Society last week...
Medicine has long used burdock roots to regulate body functions. Dr. Krantz who taught pharmacy at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland until he assumed his present position with Sharp & Dohme (1927), knew that the root contained insulin, a product much like starch. He experimented and found that diabetics did not transform this insulin into harmful sugar. Further, with burdock baked-goods, diabetics needed to take les insulin...