Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eager, never did get a man and made her exit as a faded Ophelia in the copper-lined bathtub. Tireless, generous Maggie at last gave birth-to a mortal cancer. Victor fended off decrepitude with cold plunges and Lily's listless adulation, but the Wilmington debutantes thought him more and more an old foolish, with his hoary jokes and palsied, piddling gallantry...
...equilibrium of the spinning world) was a major topic among the 2,000 members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, who met at Southampton, England, last week. So also was parthenogenesis- female moths, sawflies having propogated themselves for nine generations without male assistance. So also the cancer germ, recently discovered (TIME, July 27, MEDICINE) -it was about to be shown in cinema. The learned men and women treated de omni re scibili et quibusdam aliis, and then went home to wait the official publication of what had been said...
...something else which accompanies the virus when it makes an infection he calls "the specific factor." It is found in extracts from tumors. It may act as an irritant (for chronic irritation is known to promote cancer) or in some similar matter...
...peculiar thing about "the specific factor" is that it is apparently the product of the action of the virus growing in a tumor-and it is different for every animal and even for different tissues of the body. So a cancer of any animal, for example, cannot be given to man from an injection of the animal's tumor containing 1) virus and 2 "specific factor" because the "specific factor" is inappropriate. But virus from an animal tumor, and a "specific factor" from a human tumor, will give man tumor...
...friend named Gye who had some money. Gye liked Bullock and pretty soon Gye died. Having " faith in Bullock, he left him a legacy on the condition that he take the name of Gye. So Bullock became Gye. He studied at Edinburgh University under Dr. Bennett, a cancer expert. Then he began research. "For the last two years he hasn't had a holiday-Sundays, Christmas or any other...