Word: extractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liver Extract for Pneumonia. People who suffer from pernicious anemia can keep well by 1) eating ten pounds of liver a month at a cost of about $5.50. 2) swallowing $17 worth of liver extract a month, or 3) taking one hypodermic injection of liver concentrate a month. The concentrate costs $1.17 a dose, not counting the doctor's bill. Dr. William Parry Murphy of Boston, who won one-third of a Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning pernicious anemia, last week stressed the little known point that liver also stimulates the growth of white blood corpuscles. Therefore, said...
...efficiency. Heart of the device is a conical coil which is rotated at such speed that the heated contents are squeezed by a force 1,500 times gravity. Outlets at the base of the spinning coil provide very fine separation by density. The super contactor was de-signed to extract from petroleum certain hydrocarbons never before obtained in the pure state, to produce heavy water and other valuable isotopes cheaply, to remove from liquor impurities which not even long years of aging can extinguish...
...Washington high-powered Congressional munitions snoops promptly scoffed and sneered at the new Royal Commission because it is not empowered to extract testimony under oath or to rifle the files of His Majesty's Government. Said Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald: "We felt it would be a great mistake to assume, by giving special powers to the commission, that it would have any difficulty in getting witnesses and evidence. But we mean to give it full support in the discharge of its duties...
Standing with three others before King Gustav of Sweden, two Harvard men, George R. Minot '08, professor of Medicine, and William P. Murphy '20, instructor in Medicine, receive today the 1934 Nobel Prize, awarded them for their discovery of liver extract as a remedy for pernicious anemia...
...Rothemund concluded that this was the process of photosynthesis and chlorophyll genesis after he raised an acre of colorless corn in the pitch-dark cellar of the big laboratory building which Antioch College built with Mr. Kettering's money. The extract of white corn leaves turned green when Dr. Rothemund put it in jars of carbon dioxide...