Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pancreas passes into the blood. In normal health this secretion regulates the assimilation of sugar in the diet. Production of insulin on a large scale is difficult and expensive. Its manufacture is strictly safeguarded under patents held by the University of Toronto, and it is made by only one firm in the United States. It is administered hypodermically. Cambridge University biochemists, L. B. Winter and W. Smith, are developing an extract of yeast, very similar in composition to insulin, but much cheaper to manufacture, and of less dangerous toxic qualities. This may prove a satisfactory substitute. Dr. James C. Irvine...
...severe regulation imposed by the New York Stock Exchange upon its members with respect to their firm advertisements, as well as its strict control over its ticker price quotations, have been endangered through the sudden perfection of radio broadcasting. By a recent resolution, the Board of Governors has forbidden the use of the wireless by its members either for advertising or publicity purposes, or for promiscuous relaying of Stock Exchange quotations. The latter will, however, be permitted in the case of broadcasting stations approved by the Exchange. The aim of the restrictions upon member advertising is to prevent undesirable public...
This report and the week's news of accidents give too gloomy a picture of airplane safety. Civilian aviators are seldom killed, and one commercial airplane firm in. the United States carried over 9,000 passengers 117,000 miles without injury...
...conservative, determined to conserve, as far as I possibly can, those principles and policies of the fathers which for so many years have made our country the freest and the happiest, the most prosperous and the most powerful nation upon the face of the earth. "There is, however, one firm principle of mine which may be regarded by some as radical, but which to my mind is merely a matter of professional journalistic ethics-of common journalistic honesty. "That principle is the right of the public to a square deal on all occasions -to a fair show...
...Getter. The apotheosis of the various correspondence courses on Selling Your Own Personality." Energetic twaddle with T. Roy Barnes as the monotonously brisk young salesman who starts out with nothing but a firm jaw and ends up with the president's daughter and a stucco mansion...