Word: extractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...India's western seaboard. With him proceeded 79 followers? one Christian, two Moslems, the rest Hindus. It was a mission of profoundest significance to Indian Nationalists, for when, after 20 days, the little legion should arrive in Jalalpur, they planned to take pails of water*from the sea, extract the salt therefrom in direct defiance of the British government's Indian salt monopoly and tax. This symbolic act would inaugurate the Civil Disobedience campaign, long contemplated by Saint Gandhi as a new, potential means of protest against British rule (TIME, Jan. 13 et ante). Thereafter, countless adherents of Saint Gandhi...
...stricken confessed drinking, has been mentioned as a cause. Jamaica ginger is an infusion of the peeled and ground roots of he ginger plant in alcohol. In medicine it s used internally to remove gas on the stomach. Many women use the candied root or the extract to soothe their periodic griping. Because Jamaica ginger gives a lot feeling to the stomach and because it contains alcohol it is like lemon extract, favorite tipple of inland drinkers unable to buy normal imported alcoholic beverages. They call Jamaica ginger "jake...
...spectacled Dr. Coffey related his and his colleague's joint research, explained that their widely heralded "cancer cure" was "not a cure but an encouraging experiment." Dr. Coffey said that 1,506 cases, more than 1,300 them inoperable, had been treated with gratifying results. The Coffey-Humber extract, derived from the adrenal glands, which, when injected into a cancer sufferer, gives relief almost immediately (TIME, Feb. 24) was explained to the committee in simple English...
Volpone. Ben Jonson's acrid comedy of the Levantine who pretended illness in order to extract gifts from those who wished to be remembered in his will, has been a staple of the Theatre Guild both in Manhattan and on the road. The Guild now brings it back to Manhattan, excellently played by a cast including Earle Larimore as the servant Mosca who outfoxed his bedridden master...
...sympathetic nervous system followed by muscular contractions in legs and shoulders. But as yet no cast iron dog in a front lawn. Long since decided that some doctors are good nurses, some good midwives, some good butchers: but few have any business in doing more than squirting pituitary extract in a to-be mother. For this extract will not help such as I either in pill form or serum. Am 26, single, bulldog head, (ed) and flat feet. And when my pituitary snaps, loquacious...