Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crack veterinarian, Dr. Fred W. Miller. From the bulls Dr. Miller extracted semen containing 1,000,000,000 spermatozoa, mixed the fluid with an equal amount of sugar solution, chilled the tubes to 34° F. (spermatozoa kept in warm temperatures lash their tails until they get tired, die). Next he buried the tubes in diatomaceous earth, a good insulator, packaged the whole in a buttermilk container...
Aware of the despair which her words might cause, Dr. Macklin added: "The belief that cancer is inherited need not be a gloomy one. We can hardly make the picture darker than it is when we tell the public that one of every seven or eight adults will die of cancer. No one person can pay a doctor for a complete examination as to the possibilities of his having all the varieties of cancer that there are. But he can be examined for the more common kinds, and for the type someone else in his family has had. Thus...
This Badge was designed by Graham Carey '14, in keeping with the seventeenth century commemorative medals. The artist actually cut the die from which the medal was struck, instead of modelling it in a plastic for transferring to the die by mechanical means, according to modern methods...
...first-rank collectors in Japan, went to Tokyo in April. Director Edgell arrived in May, charmed the Japanese by laying flowers on the tomb of Professor Ernest Fenollosa, who gave the Museum of Fine Arts some of its earliest and best Japanese items, turned Buddhist, went to Japan to die...
...some 20,000 licensed optometrists. Of these less than 200 belong to the exclusive Academy, founded in 1919 by ten men. Election is by invitation and replacements are now made only when members die. The Academy prides itself on a membership more interested in science than in moneymaking. To be considered at all, a candidate must show two pieces of original research. At the Academy's convention last week, Optometrist Laurence P. Folsom of South Royalton, Vt., advised his colleagues that "the way to make money from the practice of optometry is to forget money." Dr. Folsom, who reads...