Word: extractable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merited obscurity. For a week his poetic prose has been the chief ornament of the otherwise drab sporting page of the New York World, chanting the life, works, and more significant remarks of "Red" Grange, who recently taught Pennsylvania some of the finer points of open field running. One extract will do to show the poignant lyricism with which Mr. Grange has inspired his biographer: "The poetry of the looming hills was gone, but in its stead there came a wider outlook across the wide plains of Illinois," writes Mr. Braden, smiling mistily through the tears that have been wrung...
Last week, Jews, having received, decided to give. The Council of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York made ready plans for four "Million-Dollar-Days" (Nov. 16, 17, 18 and 19), on which Jewish trade committeemen will attempt to extract a total of $4,000,000 for charitable purposes from their brethren. The names of Col. Michael Friedsam (of B. Altman & Co.) and of Arthur Lehman were honorably prefixed to Million-Dollar-Days Nov. 16 and Nov. 17 respectively...
...Queen, to everyones' amazement, was distinctly seen at Wimbledon to extract a pair of heavy tortoise-shelled spectacles from a large case and don them. With the King and Queen both converted to the use of "American glasses" they are now bound to become widely worn and provide yet another mark of Anglo-Saxon unity...
...University) was to sail September, 1925, return June, 1926. Invitations were extended to the governments of Japan, Germany, England, France, Spain and Italy to appoint "educators of national standing" to accompany the trippers. Assurances were received that the students would enjoy "considerable official recognition" in many countries. To extract maximum benefits from the shore-stops, it was planned to divide the tourist-students into small squads, each accompanied by the guide-instructors of his choice. In the ship's hold were to be 70 automobiles. One excursion scheduled was a 600-mile run from Bagdad through the Arabian desert...
...MacDonald had reported that he had made an extract of the liver, injected it in the veins of 33 patients suffering from high blood pressure, succeeded in lowering the pressures of their systolic blood (pressure as the heart contracts on its out-pumping stroke) from an average of 204 mm. to 142 mm. The diastolic (heart expansion or intake stroke) pressures had come down from an average...