Word: extract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stevens, M.D. (Warner Brothers). "They say that being a doctor is a man's job. I'm wondering what a man would have done in a case like this." When Dr. Mary Stevens (Kay Francis) makes this comment, she has just used one of her hairpins to extract a diaper-fastener from an infant's larynx. It is one of the few incidents in the picture that really concerns the professional problems of a female physician. The rest of Mary Stevens, M.D. is about Mary Stevens' non-professional activities which are almost entirely unfortunate. She becomes...
Artist Diego Rivera, lost 125 Ib. (from 310 Ib.) in eight months by substituting thyroid extract for exercise. He also avoided fat-building foods...
First they proved on guinea pigs, rabbits and themselves that the placental extracts were not poisonous and caused no sex derangements. Then on guinea pigs, rabbits and monkeys they demonstrated that the extract neutralized diphtheria toxin and infantile paralysis virus, and caused scarlet fever rashes to blanch. By good fortune 15 children who never had had measles were exposed to measles in Drs. McKhann & Chu's hospital. Ordinarily every one of them would have caught it. So the doctors took a small risk by injecting each child with the placental extract. Fourteen children showed no signs of measles...
...Senator Glass and Counsel Pecora shook hands for photographers as they made up their quarrel as to committee procedure. Senator Glass won his point of demanding advance information on what Inquisitor Pecora was trying to extract from witnesses...
...have tended to cover more and more of each other's material. This seems unnecessary. The detailed analysis of Chaucer's works, with its inevitably pedantic point of view, is at present as uninteresting to the lecturer as to the handful of students present, from whom he can rarely extract the slightest evidence of vigor. If the course is ever to be satisfactory to any concerned, the distinction between English 1 and Comp. Lit. 42 must be clearly defined, with the former much reduced in size, and by some means exclusive of all those who are merely fulfilling a requirement...