Word: extract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Note of Cheer. If high taxes and costs have put a ceiling on profits, businessmen may still extract one note of cheer: the same taxes may help to cushion the shock to profits when volume falls...
...following is an extract from the speech made by Colonel Stanley to the Foreign Policy Association in New York...
...markedly toward the end of the monthly cycle-unless pregnancy intervenes. By finding an easy way to test for pregnandiol, Dr. Henry S. Guterman of Chicago has found what is by all odds the fastest test for pregnancy urine yet discovered. He merely adds sulfuric acid to a urine extract and waits about three hours to see if it turns orange color-indicative of pregnancy. Dr. Guterman reported his method in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology Supplement. He claims that his test is as accurate as the well-known one-to two-day Friedman (rabbit) test...
...hope of a free, peaceful world without a strong, independent, democratic Germany. The Allies would find the role of oppressor as difficult as did the Nazis. . . . As long as men are dominated there will be Hitlers to take advantage of depression and chaos. The only reparations that we could extract from a defeated, devastated Germany are the dividends of a peaceful producing nation's commerce and trade...
...extracts, not yet made in quantity, bring to about 20 the number of substances Dr. Cohn can extract from plasma. But, says the laboratory (Dr. Cohn is never quoted): "The number of components that may be identified remains far greater than the number of fractions that it has been convenient to separate." Or, in plain English: Dr. Cohn knows of many more blood components which he could extract if he felt like...