Word: duct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Hines has been engaged not only in organizing his Bureau and putting it on an efficient basis, but has been cooperating with General John F. O'Ryan, who as counsel for a special committee of the Senate is investigating the previous con-duct of the Veterans' Bureau...
...best known to the Western world for his classic demonstration of the neurological basis of the digestive process in dogs. A normal animal, if hungry, shows increased flow of saliva and the digestive juices at the sight or smell of food. By a simple surgical operation, Pavloff brought the duct of a dog's salivary gland to the surface of the cheek and measured the flow under stimulus of food. At regular feeding times a bell was rung, and after several repetitions it was found that the sound of the bell alone, without food, stimulated the saliva. This process...
John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: " The public has been sandbagged and blackjacked both ways, coming and going, by the railroads." . . . The Government would con-duct the roads with some regard for the health and comfort of the public...
...Harvard Medical Society will meet tonight at 8.15 o'clock in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Amphitheatre. In addition to the usual demonstration of cases, Dr. John Donley of Providence, Rhode Island, will speak on "Wirsung to Riolan on the Pancreatic Duct", and Dr. H. B. Richardson '10 of New York City on "The Inadequacy of the Measured Diet as an Index of the Food Metabolized...