Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City of Jerusalem, toward noon one day last week, a white-robed old man with piercing eyes and a soldierly bearing walked across the compound of the Mosque of the Rock, believed by the faithful to enclose the rock from which the Prophet Mohamed rode to heaven on a white steed. King Abdullah of Jordan, who traces his descent from the Prophet himself, was making his weekly visit to the shrine to honor the Prophet and the memory of his own father, Hussein, onetime Sherif of Mecca (Custodian of the Holy Places) and King of the Hejaz, whose bones...
Last week Syntex announced that a group of its chemists headed by Dr. George Rosenkranz had at last accomplished the feat, starting with diosgenin from cabeza de negro. They transformed it by 18 chemical steps to "Reichstein's Compound D,* which had been found in minute quantities in the adrenal gland, but had never been synthesized. Only three more steps were needed to turn this compound into cortisone...
...Compound Fractured French-F. S. Pearson...
...executive order, he turned over a batch of 20 functions to the Secretary of the Interior. Among them was the duty of taxing people in the Virgin Islands who import, manufacture, produce, compound, sell, prescribe or administer marijuana for medical purposes. He also gave up the duty of removing and appointing the principal chieftains of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole Indian tribes, and of approving resolutions of their tribal councils...
...prize exhibit is her model Children's Village, a compound of small-scale houses, villas, shops, a bank, school_, church and jail-plus luxurious dormitories, dining rooms and playrooms. In theory, 200 poor children from two to five live there and 800 more come in by the day. In fact, after almost two years, the place still has the air of a period living room preserved in a museum. After visiting the village, a diplomat's wife commented: "The wish fulfillment of a little girl who never had a doll house...