Word: extractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...term for attendance at the Yale-Harvard game. . . . Each student on entering will have his name placed on the invitation-list of the most exclusive metropolitan hostesses. He will thus be assured of opportunity of meeting the season's débutantes, and he will be expected to extract from them and their parents invitations to the significant din ners, theatre-parties, dances and house-parties of the season. Students meeting these requirements will be given credit for mastery in the Science of Society. ... In ... economics . . . the texts used are the daily reports of the Stock Exchange...
...Wickersham report, product of more than nineteen months of expert investigation, is a stand-off pure and simple. Whatever the endeavor, the result is a document that is all things to all men. Read one way, neither wets nor dry can extract much solace from it; read another, both can find comfort in it, the wets because nearly all of the individual opinions favor their side of the cause, and the dry because the report as a whole stands for the existing order of things...
Anemic Plants. Plants yellow-white because they are deficient in chlorophyll perk up like anemic people when treated with liver extract, said Dr. Oran Lee Raber, botany professor at Roman Catholic Immaculata College. Immaculata...
Said he: "The task of science is to supply as many legitimate human wants as possible with one foot-pound of energy∙... to extract the maximum of satisfaction to the race of our present reserves of energy." When coal and oil are gone, Science will turn to sunlight as man's source of energy. Reassuring to the insurance presidents was it to hear Caltech's Millikan, Nobel Prizeman of 1923, student of the Cosmic Ray and of subatomic energy (both of which he rules out as practical energy sources for mankind) declare: "Only the economic reason that...
...deep brown and even black, has been treated successfully. Announcement of that important fact came last week from the Long Island Biological Association at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., where Professor Wilbur Willis Swingle of Princeton and Joseph John Pfiffner developed the medicine. It is a purified extract, a hormone, of the suprarenal glands.* Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic have used the extract on some 30 cases of Addison's disease. One case reacted favorably in 48 hours. Thomas Addison (1793-1860), English physician, traced this disease named for him to derangements of the suprarenal glands. Victims...