Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diet of albumins and thyroid extract; no proteins, salt, sugar, cereals, cream, potatoes or meat. His doctor: Ignactius Millian, one-time cancer doctor at Manhattan's Central & Neurological Hospital on Welfare Island...
...Pond's Extract Co. Mrs. Roosevelt broadcast her next-to-next-to-last commercial program. In a soft voice that can make trivial things sound important she discussed Washington society and all the "charming and interesting" people to be met there...
...promptly hung up in his private office a picture of Rev. Michael Earls who had taught him English at Holy Cross College. Last week the O'Brien English continued to make front-page news as veteran reporters, accustomed to the neat nothings of James John Walker, attempted to extract sense from the new Mayor's utterances...
...clumsy as a seal's flippers are the penalty which several thousand Dutch, Jugoslavian and German girls are paying for not wanting or daring to have babies. Theirs is precisely the punishment that was inflicted upon several thousand U. S. citizens who, craving drink, drank Jamaica ginger extract (TIME, March 24, 1930 et seq.). The European girls took apiol, an oily fluid obtained from parsley flowers, as an abortifacient. Both the European apiol and the U. S. ginger extract had been adulterated by viciously shrewd manufacturers with a tricresyl phosphate, newly discovered organic chemical which destroys nerves...
...trend was against all fads. Said Dr. Mary Swartz Rose: "The mysteries of vitamins, the specificities of minerals, the inner qualities of proteins, shortcomings of calories, the intricacies of biological equilibrium lend themselves to sciosophical interpretations that sound like gospel to the man on the street; and if they extract a little money from him, so much the better...