Word: ducted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moynahan '26 will perform a dance, K. A. Perry '28 will exhibit his powers of ventriloquism and Philip Walker '25 will perform feats of prestidigitation. A duct on two five spring banjos played by C. S. Ferguson '25 and Norton Barber '25, and a reproduction of a negro spiritual by J. L. Riker '26 complete the program...
Each larger duct and ruddy muscle seen...
...Manhattan, Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania's famed Governor, un- derwent an operation for the removal of an obstruction to the duct of one of his salivary glands. Said he: "The obstruction had to be removed . . . it makes talking difficult for a few days. . . . Meanwhile, the less I say the sooner the cut in the side of my neck will heal...
Investigations. The layman will say: " Why doesn't some one con-duct a strict scientific investigation of Abrams' extravagant claims and fantastic methods f Attempts have been made. The American Medical Association consistently refuses to do so. It will conduct a serious investigation, its says, "when the American Astronomical Society appoints a committee to determine the truth or falsity of the theory of Voliva (head of the Zion City Dowieite colony) that the earth is flat." Abrams has constantly refused to submit his method to tests controlled by the ordinary canons of science. His "reactions" often disagree with conventional diagnoses...
...Steinach's operation, no new material is transplanted. He discovered that if the reproductive function of the gonads is stopped by removing part of their duct (called the "vas deferens"), or even by tying it off, the reproductive cells atrophy and the interstitial cells multiply and occupy the space, greatly increasing the flow of the hormones. The effect is to turn the gonad into an exclusively ductless gland. The same general results are produced as in the case of transplantation. Steinach himself makes no extravagant claims. He calls the effect " arrest within modest limits of the process of senility...