Word: ferment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decree lifting the ban on Adolf Hitler's brown-shirted "Storm Troops" (TIME, June 27). In Munich, hot-headed Bavarians talked of remaking their Free State into a Bavarian Monarchy, restoring the House of Wittlesbach. Deposed Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria naturally tried to hasten the popular ferment, stopped just short of high treason to the German Republic...
...which lives on blood, can absorb as much as three or four times its body weight. Around its mouth is a sucker surrounded by a network of strong muscles. It makes a triangular incision in its victim, clamps on the sucker, pumps out the blood the while secreting a ferment which prevents the blood from coagulating. In tropical countries leeches attack men and beasts; in Western Asia, Southern Europe, North Africa they are imbibed in drinking water, cause hemorrhages, nosebleed, headache, asphyxia. They are hermaphrodites. In the U. S. they are retailed in some drug stores at 50? each, used...
...statement challenging the integrity of Harvard men and Harvard progressiveness, the conservative source of "Today's Truth--Tomorrow's Trend," reports that cribbing has not reached Harvard 'yet'. Such a discrediting imputation should serve to stir the University to a ferment of activity and reform. Even the Republicans would be stimulated to reform should they learn that the Prohibition racket had not yet come to Washington...
...very's triumph was to find an enzyme or ferment which has particular hunger for the coating of most deadly Type III. He had searched the country from coast to coast, had made hundreds of experiments. The necessary enzyme Dr. Avery and Rene Jules Dubos, Rockefeller bacteriologist trained by New Jersey's Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, found in the cranberry bogs of New Jersey. (They found it in the muck of the bogs, not in the berries.) When the bog-bred enzyme and Type III pneumococci are mixed in a test tube, the pneumococci are skinned, like Samson...
...could be learned last week Dr. Avery has not tried the ferment on human beings. But he has promised: "Its effect in patients suffering from Type III pneumonia will be determined after its action in animals has been very fully investigated...