Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equipment to be used in this course is now on its way from Texas and three of the special compound lens to be used in the aerial camera have already been received...
...Carre announced but did not prove that distemper is caused by a filterable virus. Only animals which have never been exposed to disease are useful in experiment. Researchers Laidlaw & Dunkin bred their own pups, kept them in a rigidly sanitary compound. When, by inoculation, they could produce distemper in these dogs, they knew they had isolated its virus. It was easy then to prepare a protective vaccine. From the blood of dogs hyperimmunized by repeated injections of vaccine and virus, they developed a curative serum...
...mining business out of it. Mills and smelters were constructed, a village laid out. The labor is "recruited" from the natives, hence cheap and plentiful although unskilled and shiftless. Native bachelors are housed in great dormitories, families in rows of little round houses. In 1931 the company's "compound strength" was 5,800, "European payroll" 1,000. A hospital has been built and the company boasts: "Today there is no serious risk for anyone living here provided he can take care of himself." U. S. producers, viewing their loss of control of the world situation in red metal, last...
...Berlin Dr. Arthur Eichengrun, authority on non-inflammable cellulose products, is experimenting with a fire-extinguishing compound with which airplane materials might be impregnated. When subjected to heat, the compound is supposed to emit fire-quenching gases. A test reported by the New York Times last week: one-half of a miniature blimp was impregnated with Dr. Eichengriin's solution, shut off from the other half by a bulkhead. The untreated portion was ignited, blazed away in a flash; the treated half remained intact, kept the whole structure aloft...
...Heidelberg where he helped pay his tuition as a singing waiter in a Braukeller. He was always more interested in chemistry than medicine. Back in the U. S. he stewed up something on the future Mrs. Barnes's kitchen range. It was Argyrol, the silver compound that serves many purposes of silver nitrate without its burn...