Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hatbands was Park II Woo, a tall man who wore his hair long in the fashion that Koreans call a "high collar cut." Kim II Sung and Park II Woo lived in downtown Pyongyang for a while, but soon they moved up into Ocean Village, the old Presbyterian missionary compound. Here their American-style red brick houses were next door to the residence of General Terenty Shtykov, who called himself the Soviet ambassador but was, in fact, Russian governor of North Korea. This move did not escape the attention of Pyongyang's 50,000 Christians, but the other...
Most serious charge against Seagrave was that a rebel leader named Naw Seng had used his hospital compound, in the hill country near the Burma-China border, as a military headquarters during a brief rebel occupation of the town. Lesser charges included failure to smile at or shake hands with government officials and army men. "Never," said Defense Attorney Beechenor of the prosecution's case, "have I heard so much made of so little." At bottom it seemed that the Rangoon regime, which mortally hates and fears the Karens and other hill-country minorities, could not brook Seagrave...
...Since we contemplate adopting the tax for the indefinite future, the seriousness of the inequities and administrative complexities would compound over the years and produce confusion and indecision in business," Smith says in summary. In fact, it is hard to imagine a tax which, over a long period, could be worse...
...world often work, unknown to each other, on the same problem. Thus, in 1936, two biochemists, Edward Kendall of Rochester, Minn, and Polish-born Tadeus Reichstein of Basel, Switzerland, independently reported that among the secretions of the adrenal glands they had found a complex hormone. Kendall called it compound...
Years passed, during which this hormone had little practical value. Meanwhile, Reichstein ran the number of hormones and similar substances found in the adrenal glands to 28, and Kendall kept trying to synthesize compound E, or something like it. At last Kendall and others succeeded, and late in 1948, a colleague at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Philip Hench, directed the first injections of cortisone to human victims of rheumatoid arthritis. The results were dramatic. Suddenly, a vast new field of medical research was opened...