Word: extracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Franklin designed a rigorous test to get around both difficulties. They kept a daily record of their patients' symptoms for an entire season, thus eliminating error from day-to-day variations. And they divided the patients into two groups, only one of which got injections containing ragweed extract in gradually increased amounts...
...Controlled, they will take over all the other bees and they will take over Brazil. Says São Paulo Beekeeper Luiz Zovaro who keeps African bees, but has had to raise the price of honey from 39? to almost $2 a jar because it is so difficult to extract honeycombs from their hives: "If they are not stopped Brazil will no longer be safe. I am very discouraged about the future...
...most ardent of all literature luggers is the Experience Maximizer, who seeks to extract every ounce of significance from his travels by boning up on the history and folklore of the place he is visiting. For a sojourn in Italy this summer, a Manhattan couple came armed with H. V. Morton's A Traveller in Rome and A Traveller in Italy, Luigi Barzini's The Italians, and a clutch of Moravia novels. Another species of Experience Maximizer is represented by Washington's Laughlin Phillips, a former State Department officer, who during shore vacations in Maryland cracks nothing...
...with each other rather than opposite each other. The scene in which Petruchio withholds supper from a starving Kate is one of the few truly comic spots in the show, and it climaxes in Kate's stuffing a string of sausages surreptitiously down her bodice only to have Petruchio extract it. Elsewhere, she takes off one of her two high-heeled slippers to batter Petruchio, which gives a delightful new twist to his line. "Why does the world report that Kate doth limp...
...ready to treat the incident like the theft of an atomic secret. Anyone who would abscond with such a letter was obviously "untrustworthy," Liz told the press, and the whole affair might be a "security matter." Two Secret Service men were dispatched to Hamilton's office to extract the name of the letter seller...