Word: extract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This place is a swirl of rumors, propaganda and outright lies from which it is most difficult to extract the grain of truth. All except eyewitness reports by competent and independent correspondents should be treated with the greatest reserve. Any objective account from any side seems out of the question. There are three main sources of information...
When she was a year old, anemic Beverly was taken to Akron's Children's Hospital. A deep injection of liver extract for anemia is painful, and babies usually howl vigorously when they get one-but not Beverly; she didn't even whimper. Hospital doctors examined her more closely. They decided that she really is a "painless" baby suffering from "indifference to injury, of congenital origin"; she cries only when hungry or angry. It is a rare condition (first described ten years ago by Johns Hopkins Neurologist Frank R. Ford), probably due to a defect...
Most of Thomas Alva Edison's diary is like this day's extract-an approach to all & sundry on a one-track even keel. Like his neat, snug handwriting, which seems exactly to reflect him, Edison's way of life indicates no ups & downs-only a remorseless, meticulous line of continuity. Editor Runes has printed only a handful of Edison's daily records (along with many of his articles and public statements), but they are enough to show what a strange assortment of things swam in the sea of cool equanimity that was Edison...
...negotiators got ready to hear what concession Stalin proposed to extract from the Finns (one guess: bases in Finland), the local Communists grew bolder. Communist "working committees" visited Helsinki newspapers, warned them to stop "anti-Soviet propaganda." Said one editor: "The next move will be an invasion of newspaper offices by hired gangsters and the eviction of our staffs...
Almost as bad as benzedrine, Bock declared, is caffeine extract and commercial stay-awake pills...