Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, the Commission on Neurotropic Virus Diseases reported that Army doctors first isolated the virus in Hawaii, developed the new vaccine in the U.S. from an extract taken from the brains of mice infected with the virus. An immunizing dose is extremely small: extract from the brain of a single mouse supplies 10,000 doses...
...flower painting she brings a technique familiar in photography but seldom attempted on canvas: the dramatic closeup. Like a bee, she explores the innermost recesses of hollyhocks, irises and morning-glories, and manages to extract an almost cloying degree of honey-sweet, cream-smooth satisfaction from them...
...Manhattan) had been sent a basket of wine (four bottles) by a California vintner, responded with a womanly international gesture. To the pilot who had flown the wine from the Cresta Blanca vineyards she dictated her recipe for Chinese Burgundy: beaten whites two eggs, one pint Burgundy, dash vanilla extract, dash orange bitters; stir in the whites slowly...
What did worry Moore was the paucity of information about the 20th Century's most potent germ destroyer. Though the molecular structure of the mold extract had been virtually solved, chemists were still unable to synthesize it. The discovery of four types hinted that there might be more. Recent research indicated that the very impurities which manufacturers had striven to eliminate might be responsible for some of the drug's efficacy. Why, no one knows. Could penicillin ultimately be broken into its component parts-each a remedy for a specific infection? Again, no one knows...
...painless way of meeting commitments to export six million tons of wheat by July i, flour millers last week began to extract 80% of the wheat kernel instead of the customary 68 to 72%. This was no great hardship for U.S. citizens. What the new flour* lost in snowy whiteness it would gain in nutritive value; U.S. bread, usually flat, poor stuff, would gain in taste...