Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saipan scrawny, hungry Jap civilians were still coming out of caves where they had hidden since the battle began last June. Upon surrendering they are placed in a two-square-mile compound named "Camp Susupe" (after the nearby shallow lake), which now shelters 18,000 - 13,000 Japs, the rest Christian Chamorros, Koreans and Kanakas...
...casualty and evacuate him. "Take that tag and label a bottle with it," Puller roared, "I'll stay here." Later, he ruefully noted in his combat journal: "I found myself unable to keep up with my battalion," and he had to go back to the hospital compound. But he did not stay long...
Britons had never hated the enemy as they did now, or lived in a more ironical compound of hope & fear. Anyone could see that Jerry was licked. But though he could not win by it, he was slamming over every flying bomb he had on hand before the Allied troops swept him out of France, took his launching sites. Soon he might be sending over even bigger, deadlier robombs from sites in the Low Countries or Germany. Said Health Minister Henry U. Willink, standing amid ruins...
...treatment was developed in experiments on Virgin Islanders by Dr. Harold W. Brown, of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He gave twelve patients daily injections of an antimony compound (lithium antimony thiomalate). In all but one case, the drug destroyed all or nearly all the microfilariae in the blood in less than a month. A recheck four or five months after treatment showed no increase in the worms. Though the drug did not kill all the mother filariae in the glands, Dr. Brown thinks that repeated treatments, killing their offspring, may dispose of the mothers...
Relaxin seems to be a protein compound, insoluble in most solvents. Though the pure hormone has not yet been isolated, Hisaw has produced highly concentrated doses. A conscientious scientist who never lets himself get ahead of his facts, Dr. Hisaw refuses to predict what use, if any, may be made of relaxin...