Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biochemists were no sooner positive of the hormone-vitamin relationship in the growing processes, than they discovered a sterol-like substance in coal tar which causes certain kinds of cancer. Cancer is a form of growth, but unregulated. The cancerogenic coal tar "sterol" causes the same sex changes in rats as does the hormone theelin. The breasts and uterus are common sites of cancer, and many an investigator has suspected a sex hormone as a possible cause. Knowledge of growth, hormones and vitamins are becoming interlaced to the biochemist's delight. He is confident that from them...
Advised Secretary of the Treasury Woodin, who was forced to leave Washington early this summer with throat trouble, to extend his vacation until Sept. 1. Said Secretary Woodin: "There is nothing wrong with my throat. I've had it tested for everything from cancer to leprosy, but the doctors tell me it's nothing more than the climate. . . . The boss keeps after me to take it easy. He is very sympathetic and understanding...
...Irish-settled districts of the U.S. took to the waters. Especially crowded were the sea beaches fringing New York City. On Staten Island, believers arose at dawn, thinking that the earlier the dip the more sure the cure. Method of seeking cures- for anything from headache to cancer-is to bathe thrice, praying the while. But the old and the obese content themselves with a few splashes. Less credulous Catholics have the full approval of the Church in offering novenas (nine-day prayers) in honor of the Virgin, and going on solemn Assumption processions through their parishes. The Assumption...
...would be doing if he had not attended. Sixty per cent confessed that they would be idle. Forty per cent of these would be searching for jobs, and the remaining 20 per cent taking life as easily as possible. Others would have had jobs ranging from assistant in a cancer research laboratory to lookout on in ice patrol boat in the north Atlantic. Eighteen per cent would be aluminum, book, and encyclopedia salesmen...
Died. Alexander Van Rensselaer, 82, a founder and longtime president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, board president of Philadelphia's Drexel Institute; of cancer; in Philadelphia. Last February when his stepson John R. Fell sensationally died of a knife wound in Solo, Java, Alexander Van Rensselaer protested it could not be suicide because Fell was "not a quitter" (TIME. March...