Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news about cancer to which reputable specialists pay attention is not wild announcements of a sure cure for all types of the disease, but sober reports of cancer facts dug up in laboratories and hospitals which may eventually, by long hard work, lead to a cancer cure. Last week cancer researchers in the U. S., working harder than ever because of new organizations and contributions paid attention to some new cancer facts reported from France and England...
...tissues. Dr. Sperti therefore decided that he had come upon a general phenomenon associated with cell injury. Since one effect of the hormone was to multiply cells rapidly, it seemed possible that unknown hormones of the same type might be the cause of the unhealthy cell proliferation which constitutes cancer. But since the fluid from radiated yeast brought about normal, not abnormal cell proliferation, the prospect arose of using it to heal human hurts...
Last week Jake Kilrain, lately a night-watchman, died of cancer, heart disease and gangrene on the exact day the American Mercury appeared with this robust account of the almost incredibly titanic Kilrain-Sullivan battle. The story was the work of Oland D. Russell. Few ringside sportsmen 49 years ago would have wagered that the stumbling, blotched pulp of Jake Kilrain would serve him to a ripe age of 78. Almost as astonishing as his longevity was the Mercury's luck in timing Contributor Russell's story with Jake Kilrain's unpredictable death last week, the first...
Thus the Varsity is little weakened by graduation. And a great amount of strength is furnished by the promotion of last year's classic Freshman team which defeated Yale the worst in the history of Harvard-Yale track. Probation, however, has developed into a definite cancer this fall. Several good men will be prevented from competing at all this year unless midyears remove the bonds. Nat Heard in the shot, pole vaulter Win Pettingell, sprinter Charlle Cretzmeyer, and quarter-miler Joe Donnelly have fallen victim to June examinations...
January 9, Harry R. De Silva, lecturer on Motor Vehicles Administration, "Men, Motor Cars, and Alcohol"; January 16, Shields Warren, assistant professor of Pathology, "Cancer"; January 23, Paul E. Boyle, instructor in Pathology, "Teeth"; January 30, Frederick E. Russel, professor of Preventive Medicine, "Progress in Preventive Medicine...