Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Mr. Brady's money what he himself might have done with it were he still alive. Sufficiently vast was Mr. Brady's fortune to make his estate, like Thomas Fortune Ryan's, a business in itself. Affiliated with so many mobile companies it cannot remain dormant...
...Coffey and Humber believe that the essential substance of the adrenal cortex stabilizes growth of body tissues. Paucity of this substance permits, they think, dormant wild cells to grow into cancers. Their converse is to supply the patient the substance which apparently at once thwarts such rampant growth...