Word: compound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the ranch house compound, where a caged jaguar howls nightly, are stables and corrals. Close by is the dirty village where the Indian workers live...
...slave hormones whose flow can be speeded by ACTH is cortisone, formerly known as Compound E (TIME, June 13). Like its master, cortisone almost always relieves the symptoms of crippling rheumatoid arthritis in a few injections, but, again like its master, it must be used continuously or the condition recurs...
...green horse van, Air Lift was taken back to the stables. The track veterinarian found two compound fractures of the ankle, deadened the pain with a double shot of novocaine. Grooms sponged the colt off and gave him some hay to munch. New York Sun Sportwriter W. (for Wilford) C. Heinz, who turned in the best story of anybody that day, reported the dialogue that came next...
...Justice Felix Frankfurter has sometimes disputed), the majority seemed to be saying that the protection of the Fourth Amendment does not extend to all citizens. The decision left 30 of the 48 states free to use the evidence that has to be tossed out of all federal courts. To compound the confusion, Justice Frankfurter added one more helpful remark to the majority opinion: if a state passes a law to legalize searches which are already legal in fact, the Supreme Court may have to declare it unconstitutional...
Muscles, he says, are chemical engines that get their energy from a compound called adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Their active portions are submicroscopic fibers made of a peculiar protein called actomyosin. When the protein is linked with ATP (to supply energy), it is like a coiled spring or a loaded gun. An electrical impulse from the nervous system can "fire the gun," making the fibers contract powerfully...