Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autograph on the title page, are new on exhibition in the Treasure Room at the College Library. These include a Latin Lexicon, and a copy of "The Private Life of Lewis XV." Together with early biographies, there is also a copy of his diary, open at the following extract, which refers to a portrait new in Adams House: "Sat from ten to one o'clock for a Mr. Savage, to draw my portrait for the University of Cambridge, in the state of Massachusetts, at the request of the President and Governors of the said University...
...place of bonds, notes, bank loans. The plan is the result of almost a year's study by Edward Dailey Levy, president of the new company, whose experience has ranged from western railroading to the Emergency Fleet Corp. and on to Paraguay where he rejuvenated a decrepit tanning extract business...
Following with naive exactitude the plot of Marlene Dietrich's "Dishonored", "Mata Hari" tells the story of the fascinating secret agent of the Central Powers who is employed to extract priceless secrets from allied officers but eventually sacrifices honor and country for love. Afterwards comes the scene in the sombre prison. As in "Dishonored", the heroine in one sequence seats herself at the piano, plays stirring tunes while her lover watches. Ramon Navarro is the young officer who falls victim...
...cells multiplied and grown up. Last spring Dr. Francis Ferdinand Lucas, microscopist of Bell Telephone Laboratories, perfected an ultraviolet ray microscope capable of showing living cells in action. He set it to work photographing brain, cancer and sperm cells (TIME, March 2). Last week was tested a device to extract new cell secrets...
...Cancer. The pituitary gland's power to balance body growth suggested to Dr. William Susman of the University of Manchester that its extract might be useful against cancer. Dr. Susman, pathologist, had noticed during the autopsies of some 200 cancer victims that their pituitaries and pancreases were generally and suspiciously abnormal. The ill-conditioned pancreases suggested that the patient had been eating a great amount of carbohydrates, like sugar and bread. Dr. Susman verified this suspicion by irritating the skin of mice until cancers developed. Bread-fed mice showed cancers much more frequently than oat-&-cheese fed mice...