Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Elizabeth Madox Roberts, 46, good-looking but unmarried, lives near Springfield, Ky., where she was born, whither some of her ancestors had plodded from Virginia over "Boone's Trace." Independent, self-contained, her speech and writing alike are full of a mannered dignity, a compound of books and Kentucky dialect. Before she settled down to be an important U. S. novelist she wrote a book of poems, Under the Tree, which won the Fiske Prize. When the Literary Guild chose A Buried Treasure for its November book Authoress Roberts hung up a figurative trophy: she was the first authoress...
...Actress Taylor (Peg o' My Heart, Out There, The National Anthem) he telephoned the information. Miss Taylor (now Mrs. J. Hartley Manners) remembered a brother had opened an account for her with $590. Compound interest had brought the amount to about $1,000. Said...
...enclosing a photograph recently taken in my native compound, and a copy of a letter sent to the nearest American Consul which may be of interest...
Whenever vision is suddenly affected by a drug there probably is a methyl radical (CH3) involved. Professor Binz's compound had such a methyl radical. Not worried, he offered to synthesize a more tolerable iodine preparation, soon furnished 5-iodo-2-pyridon-N-acetate of sodium, which he calls Uroselectan and U. S. urologists lopax. Injected in the veins it rapidly collects in the kidneys and shows by means of x-rays the shape of those organs and any stones or malformations there or in the ureters (leading from the kidneys to the bladder...
...banks, none owed them, with $21,000,000 current assets against $2,228,000 current liabilities. Its beds and mattresses (Beautyrest, Deepsleep, Slumber King, Ace) are still leaders. An ace-in-the-hole which it has long threatened to play on the industry is Zalmite, a synthetic compound whose chief ingredients are said to be peanut shells, burlap & other waste materials. Zalmite was of course named for President Zalmon Gilbert Simmons. Although early in 1930 President Simmons was so shattered by the rude turn of events that a statement had to be issued that his health...