Word: extract
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Within 100 years, says President James Bryant Conant of Harvard, science will have found a safe contraceptive that can be taken by mouth and the world will have a remedy for overpopulation. Last week British researchers reported an early lead in that direction. They had made an extract from a common countryside herb called gromwell (Lithospermum officinale) and given it first to female rats. The rats stopped ovulating. When the gromwell was stopped, they promptly resumed ovulating and proved, by becoming pregnant, that their fertility had been only temporarily arrested...
Next, the researchers gave the gromwell extract to humans to check for harmful effects. They found none. Then they made tests to see whether a woman taking gromwell continued to ovulate. She did not. Finally, they withdrew the gromwell and she resumed normal ovulation...
...swallow of gromwell (or any of a dozen other chemicals on which scientists are working) does not make a contraceptive summer. But the case for gromwell has a bit of legendary support: Shoshone Indians have long insisted that an extract from the western species (Lithospermum ruder ale) helps them to control the size of their families...
...Eliot." For those who feel that Pound's poetry is intolerable because of his political behavior, that the verse of Eliot is fickle because of the author's flirtation with the classics and religion, and so on with the heirs of 1912, then Full Cycle may extract a chuckle here and there. Viereck, however, falls to equally deplorable sins of banality and conceit. "Cow? Bad enough! But sacred--calf?" From the technical point of view, one can say that the poet has a good sense of rhythm and sound. But these attributes are regrettably eclipsed by the bitter, turtle...
...vomiting it brings on. Since his illness, he has eaten nothing but mashed carrots, peas and toast with tea. He has never been able to hold food for more than 40 minutes, and now the time is down to ten minutes-not long enough for his digestive system to extract the nourishment his body needs. Standing 5 ft. 6 in. and always slight (never over 135 Ibs.), he is now down to 76 Ibs. He sleeps fitfully, twitching all the time. Lately the hiccups have speeded up from 60 to 70 a minute...