Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...precipitated and solidified this gold so readily as contact with human flesh heated by passion. The time that Wm. Abrahams was disappointed in love he used to step outdoors when the wind was blowing, and come in again and begin to sigh & sigh, and his brother and I would extract over $1.50 out of every sigh...
...later on the long road; that now, in the fifth year of the war, there will be doubts, despondencies and slackness. They then hope that out of this they will be able to consolidate their forces in their central fortress of Europe, their remote home islands in Japan, and extract from our weariness and from any divisions which might appear among us the means of making terms to enable them to repair their losses, regather their forces and open upon the world, perhaps within another decade, a war even more terrible than that through which we are now passing...
Endurance at Salerno. This point was the area of Naples. To the south, in the Calabrian peninsula, where the British Eighth army had begun the landings, the Germans' chief effort was to extract what troops and planes they could. When, on the seventh day, the British arrived to take the great port of Taranto, the Germans had deserted it to confused, volubly embarrassed Italians. As the British marched eastward to Brindisi on the Adriatic, they met only the rear guard of a retreating German Panzer division...
...Martin and Fisher also talked about a new extract of penicillium mold, penicillin B (the original penicillin must henceforth be called penicillin A). Penicillin B's attack is exactly opposite to A's-it supplies bacteria with too much oxygen. The two should never be used together, as they might cancel each other out. Researchers at St. Louis University who isolated the new penicillin B claim that it is ten times as effective as penicillin A, but even rarer...
...thiocyanate (which reduces blood pressure and stops hypertensive headaches), remove a diseased kidney (but be sure it is the right one) or cut the nerves that connect the abdominal blood vessels with the nervous system. Dr. Page modestly dismisses as still an unproved experiment his own discovery-a kidney extract injected to counteract angiotonin (TIME, March 3, 1941)-although it has effected some remarkable cures...