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...Funk and Dubin showed that the yeast-stimulating power might be merely accidentally associated with Vitamin B. When an extract rich in B is shaken with Fuller's earth all its anti-neuritic power (power to cure beriberi, the chief characteristic of Vitamin B) is removed, though it continues to stimulate yeast. Funk therefore proposed that Vitamin B was really two vitamins?B, the anti-neuritic, and D, the yeast-stimulating. Dr. E. V. McCollum, of Johns Hopkins University, one of the pioneer American investigators of vitamins, has also used the term Vitamin D for a factor present...
...President of the United States was asked to offer himself as a magnificent sacrifice in favor of a strong man. The author of this proposal was one Frank Hendrick, Manhattan lawyer, the same who attempted legally (TIME, March 3) to extract $1,100,000 from Mr. Edward W. Bok on account of Hendrick's inspired doctrine for World...
...long suffering public is entitled to what little pleasure it can extract from its daily measure of scandal. The sibylline Senator from New Hampshire, George Higgins Moses, happily forecasting no restriction of the oil scandal ration, said...
...Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Toronto. A substance called bios (life) was discovered 20 years ago by a Belgian professor at Louvain University, but Dr. Miller, in experimenting on yeast, found that minute quantities of this substance greatly stimulated the growth of cells. In attempting to extract it from wort, he found that it could be split into the two new compounds...
...Venice. Her impersonation was of ancient grandeur; I have seen its like but once upon stage: the acting of Othello by Salvini, who was seventy years old at the time. But the mark of Siegfried's own character is equally well displayed in his Recollections. This short extract quoted in the book from his diary is sufficient evidence of an affirmative personality...