Word: cachet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...younger liver was, the greater might be its power of stimulating blood formation. His persuasiveness induced the Government's meat inspectors to release him sufficient fetal livers for his purpose. The remedy apparently has proved successful. Dr. Gordon's success gained the Department of Agriculture's cachet last week. Rice Price Steddom. chief of the Federal Meat Inspection Service, offered to release to reputable physicians, medical institutions and pharmaceutical manufacturers all possible fetal livers which reach slaughter. But the rest of the unborn carcasses may not be marketed...
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This lady, Marie Alorge, cruelly exiled from France under a lettre de cachet is known as La Dame de Sainte Hermino, and her fortunes are wrapped up with those of the new French settlement of New Orleans, its doughty founders and defenders, and its kindly peasant people. She endures perils of loneliness, perils of storm, perils of Indians, and comedy and tragedy mingle in her love story...