Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard "fusel oil" as an ingredient of unsavory whiskey and a cause of bad hangovers. Alluding to this idea with some irony last week, Industrial Chemist W. B. D. Penniman of Baltimore stated that fusel oil is the collective name for six complex alcohols which are the most important factor in determining the flavor of good whiskey. Usually they are present in percentages of only a few tenths of 1%. When a customer sued an Irish distiller for damages to his health from drinking whiskey which, he claimed, contained one quarter of 1% fusel oil, the distiller's analyst...
...opening address by Professor Adrian, who is a Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, was co-winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1932, and established the important "all-or-none" law of nervous reaction. This law states that the intensity of sensation depends on a factor inherent in the nerve itself, and not on the strength of the stimulus...
Firmly established is the Slye doctrine that susceptibility to cancer is inherited as a recessive Mendelian character, transmitted by a single gene. Resistance to the disease is a dominant character, and represses, but does not obliterate, the susceptibility factor whenever they occur together. A resistant individual mated to a susceptible one will have resistant offspring. But these offspring carry the susceptibility gene concealed in their germ plasm, and if they mate with susceptibles the second generation will be liable to cancer. The Slye mice show that not only inherited susceptibility but also some injury or chronic irritation is necessary...
Bengal Tiger (Warner) injects into circus formula No. 1-about the lion tamer (Barton MacLane), the lion tamer's wife (June Travis) and the handsome young man on the flying trapeze (Warren Hull)-one new and valuable factor. Satan, meanest tiger in captivity, chews off the lion tamer's right leg at the picture's start, obligingly devours what remains of him at the finish. Between times he prowls down a village street, goes on a rampage in a butcher shop, makes kindling out of innumerable kitchen chairs, kills a substitute keeper, growling the while...
...When he took his Twentieth Century Pictures and his ace producer, Darryl Zanuck, to Fox Film last year, he found Fox in possession of 49% voting interest in a holding company which controlled Gaumont-British. With 450 theatres and the best production in the Empire, Gaumont is the biggest factor in British cinema. The Fox interest in Gaumont-British was picked up by William Fox in 1929 for about $20,000,000, a purchase which later played a large part in toppling the silvery Fox pyramid about Founder Fox's large ears...