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Anxious to extract every ounce of juice from every story, he would summon young writers before him, subject them to a fire of questions: "Who?" "What did he do?'' "What do you mean...
...time serve the interests of the two great democracies, their Navies would automatically complement each other in the Pacific." Added Columnist Krock: "This is the kind of understanding that is hardly more than a wink or a nod, the sort of thing not Mr. Johnson or anyone else can extract from men's inner minds by means of a resolution...
...patient has measles the doctor may be able to shorten its course or make it less severe by injecting: 1) blood serum from someone recently recovered from measles, or 2) an extract of human placenta...
Because German bakers use 800,000,000 eggs a year in making their rich pastries, the Nazi Government was delighted to find a substitute by which it hopes to save 400,000,000 eggs a year. Out of 32 pounds of cheap fish is made a pound of extract which is supposed to be an adequate substitute for 160 hens' eggs. To make this extract palatable to Germans who had more than a bellyful of Ersatz (substitutes) during the War, and have been fed up with it again as a result of Nazi isolation policies, the Government hit upon...
...monkeys. Dr. Lewis gave eight infected children hypodermic doses of theelin, a sex hormone, and cured them in a few weeks. A few months later Dr. John Huberman of Newark, N. J. and Dr. Howard Harry Israeloff of nearby Irvington, collaborating, gave five children hypodermic injections of amniotin. an extract of the fluids in which unborn children float. They gave a sixth child amniotin by mouth. All six got rid of their gonorrhea in a few months...