Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They hope to extend their studies by producing cancer experimentally with the aid of the newly isolated chemical substances, and to determine the possibility of preventing the growth of cancer, by the use of the preventing chemical substance. Investigators of cancer throughout the world will no doubt attempt to confirm the work of Freund and Kaminer and to extend the observations further...
...with scarlet fever on exposure to the disease. The test used is a specific skin test much like the Schick test that is used for testing immunity to diphtheria. Dr. W. Mair of London, who has spent many years on the study of scarlet fever, has been able to confirm the specific character of a test originally worked out by Schultz and Charlton in Germany. In that test a small amount of serum from a patient who is convalescing from scarlet fever is injected into the skin of a person who may be acutely ill with the disease...
When the House met to confirm the Committee appointments, there was imminent possibility that the insurgents and the Democrats might combine to displace two regular Republicans, replacing one by a Democrat, one by Mr. Nelson. Scenting danger, Floor Leader Longworth immediately moved and secured adjournment...
...thing these passionate pictures do accomplish: they confirm a long-standing conviction that Omar will never do for prohibition propaganda nor for an anchorite's amulet...
...been unanimously of the opinion that George F. Baker knew something about running banks. The declaration by the directors of the First National Bank of New York, of which Mr. Baker is chairman, of a 20% extra dividend along with the regular quarterly dividend of 10%, has tended to confirm this impression. The dividends this year total 60% and amount...