Word: extractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yonkers house; to Daughter Margaret Hickman Schulz Biddle, a $5,756,555 trust fund. Birthdays. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 80; Ida Minerva Tarbell, 75; Senator James Eli Watson of Indiana, 68; Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir, 31. Died. Frances Burnett, 22, vanilla extract scioness; Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr., 29, Boston socialite, president of Skyways, Inc.; and Frank Penrose Sproul, 25, Harvardman, assistant manager of Skyways, Inc.; instantly, when Ames's cabin monoplane went into a tail spin at a height of 2,500 ft., crashed in a field; in Randolph, Mass. Died. Sidney Wilmot Winslow...
...Note: The following is an extract from the serial biography of Prince Michael Romanoff, nee Gerguson, an impostor...
...undisputed "Pearl King," purveys Mikimoto pearls to the Imperial Court. Speaking only Japanese and proud of his eccentricities, Pearl King Mikimoto loves to fete Occidental visitors to his pearl farm. First they are given baskets of Mikimoto oysters. Next Mikimoto minions open each guest's oysters, extract the pearls and present them to the guests, throw the oyster meat and shells away. Pearl King Mikimoto then leads the way to lunch which begins with fried oysters in which the guests find badly discolored pearls...
...eyes, bronchi, etc.). Whichever theory is correct, and proponents of neither claim certainty, allergists have progressed remarkably in treating the multitudinous manifestations of this peculiar sensitivity. By testing various substances on the patient's skin, allergists find just what he is sensitive to. From that they prepare an extract with which they very often can immunize him. But immunity to the pollen of one group of plants does not protect against the pollen of another group. A cured hayfever does not prevent migraine or hives. The tendency to allergy is inherited...
...hormones. Males have been conceded but one, though male and female sex glands are analogous. Last week Dr. D. Roy McCullagh of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation reported in Science "almost but not absolutely conclusive" arguments for the presence of two testicular hormones. In a benzene solution an extract prepared from the gonads produces the well-known hormone which is responsible for the development and maintenance of the secondary male sex characteristics (beard, voice, chest hair, etc. etc.). It is called "androtin" from the Greek root andros (man). Dr. McCullagh made a water solution of the same extract, found it acted...