Word: extract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Derived from the root of the snakeroot shrub, Rauwolfia serpentina, crude extracts of which have been used for 3,000 years by India's medicine men. The late Mohandas Gandhi took such an extract as a tranquilizer...
...Hadacol (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951), is open for business again with a new vitamin-and-alcohol cure-all he calls Karyon ($1.25 for a 7-oz bottle). Compared to bad-tasting Hadacol, says Medicine Man LeBlanc, "this has a very classy taste. We've flavored it with lemon extract...
Many Unknowns. Researchers reported many promising new things for the continuing fight against TB: a drug which is related to isoniazid, and looks just as good; a powdered extract of bacilli to make a vaccine which compares with BCG; better understanding of the need for vitamins A and C in treating patients. But the dominant tone of the meetings was a harshly realistic note sounded by the Rockefeller Institute's famed Bacteriologist Rene Jules Dubos...
...speech contained a major surprise. Coolly blaming Argentina's meager development of its oil resources on the conservation policies of his opposition when it held power, Nationalist Perón announced that he was going to let foreigners "extract oil and Deliver it to us." When the producer gets the oil out, Perón VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT TEISAIRE Also a vote from Eva Perón. explained, "I will come and say 'Hey! Hold on, boy. Now it's mine!' He will say it cost him money . . . Then I will pay him what...
...mother Butler's custom to treat little Sam to "sofa talks"-long, cozy, heart-to-heart, during which he was made to "feel guilty for not being sufficiently grateful for all his parents had done for him." It was also mother Butler's habit to extract confidences from Sam and then pass them on to her formidable husband. If the canon disliked what he heard, and he usually did, Sam got a thrashing. He grew up with the unshakable convictions that 1) all male authority is brutal and despicable, and 2) all female love is a form...