Word: extract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yesterday my attention was drawn to the following extract [TIME, Aug. 27]: "Last December J. David Stern, an ardent New Dealer, bought the New York Evening Post and in February hired Dr. Gruening as editor. . . . For all their enthusiasm for social reform, Stern of Russian-Jewish extraction and Gruening of German-Jewish extraction were unable to see eye to eye." . . . Would you be surprised to learn that David Stern is not of Russian extraction but of the same as Dr. Gruening, although further removed...
...mild-mannered Albert Payson Terhune, whose dog stories have been so successful that he has never had much chance to write anything else, Whom the Gods Destroy is ideal cinema material: sad, intelligent, dramatic and improving. Handsomely photographed and directed by Walter Lang in such a way as to extract the last tear from every situation, its importance as a picture is that it may launch Walter Connolly as a U. S. Emil Jannings...
...included in its original program, was laid directly at the feet of the Gueorguieff government by the League of Nations last week. The pleasant fields of Bulgaria blush with roses from which perfume manufacturers extract essential oil, Bulgaria's best known product. Not so well known is another Bulgarian industry. League investigators of the international narcotic trade have often pointed an accusing finger at Bulgaria as one of the most important manufacturing sources of illegal opium and heroin. Last week came another League report on opium, and its charges against Bulgaria were stronger. Stuart J. Fuller...
Daniel J. Burke, attorney for several of the defendants in the riot trial at Charlestown, which went into its second day yesterday was ordered out of the courtroom by Judge Charles S. Sullivan, presiding magistrate, at 11.58 yesterday morning when he tried to extract testimony from the police concerning the purpose of the demonstration last Thursday...
...though the function of the thymus is, it occurs in all creatures from fish to man. In man, it shrivels as adolescence wanes, becomes only a vestige with age. Dr. Rowntree, following the lead of an old friend, Dr. Adolph Melanchton Hanson of remote Faribault, Minn., injected rats with extracts of cattle thymi (sweetbreads). Nothing unusual seemed to happen, except that the females produced more babies than undosed females. Dr. Rowntree dosed the babies, but got no more obvious results than a continued statistical excess of births. Third, fourth and subsequent generations, however, proved astonishing. Rats generally do not breed...