Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eggs & Tubes. Another type of testing is done on eggs. A girl technician examines a fertile egg under a strong light, finds the developing embryo, and cuts a square hole in the shell above it. She plants a bit of cancer on the embryo, and seals the hole with a glass window stuck on with wax. The egg is put in an incubator. As the embryo grows, the cancer grows too. The embryo's blood vessels turn aside to supply the cancer, which frequently grows until it is nearly as big as the chick. Drugs are tested by injecting...
There are no Eastern Intercollegiate titles riding on the outcome of the contest--Yale took care of that when it eliminated the Crimson from title contention Monday down at New Haven. Instead there will merely be half a century of Class Day baseball tradition to egg the players on, and the largest and most partisan crowed of the year installed in the venerable stands...
...pictures miss few of the hairs. Using the Renaissance technique of egg tempera painting on wood panels, Hurd confines himself to precise portraits of people and places, dramatized by isolated figures, long shadows and cold, gleaming colors. The paintings that tell of the barren hills and washes, the deserts and clear bright light of New Mexico are as knowing and sincere as an honest man's praise of his own family...
Chicken or Egg? Rheumatic patients carry in themselves the cure as well as the cause of the disease, say Mayo's Drs. Philip S. Hench and Edward C. Kendall. The problem: how to wake up the dormant curative powers in the body. Drs. Hench and Kendall have succeeded in doing it dramatically but temporarily with two hormones: cortisone, originally called compound E,* and ACTH (TIME, May 2). But they were cautious in their report, warned that the hormones are still extremely scarce and that it is too early to tell how safe the long treatment will...
...emotions are known to affect the glands that produce hormones, just as they affect the muscles; the hormones, in turn, affect the emotions. In the study of rheumatism, the doctors have not reached the point of being able to say which comes first-the rheumatic chicken or the emotional egg...