Word: fitfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shots of thyroid or pituitary hormones enable a dwarf to fit into a man-sized suit of clothes, a young boy to sing basso profundo. Spectacular as the results of hormone treatment may be, doctors are still in the dark about the exact size of the injection in many unusual cases, have dared to administer only conservative amounts of hormone over long periods of time. Last year Physiologists R. Deanesly and Alan Sterling Parkes of the National Institute for Medical Research at London grew tired of performing innumerable injections in their laboratory, decided that they needed a "laborsaving device." They...
...short novel, inspired by the playing of an excellent musician in a jazz orchestra who died several years ago, and it merely tells the story of Rick Martin, who found in swing an outlet for artistic expression but at the same time a destructive medium which he could not fit to his life...
...Dominion's high proportion of air accidents is due to disobedience of orders or bad flying discipline; that Australia's prized fighting plane, the Wirraways, similar to the U. S. Army's North American BT 9, possesses insufficient speed for a modern fighter and is fit only for a temporary expedient or a training ship: that all Australia's service squadrons are below strength in men and oncers...
Will you congratulate your Radio Editor for me on his delightfully apt descriptive phrase in TIME, Aug. 22, concerning News Commentator Boake Carter-''cloaking his accounts of daily events in a tone of dark menace." The lack of such a phrase to fit Mr. Carter's dramatic news-rendering has saddened me for years...
...stage. But to Anna, the mare which for almost 25 years has appeared at the Metropolitan in Aïda, that scene is serious stuff. In her younger days Anna also acted in Ben Hur and The Sheik. Last week, Anna, 36 years old, had a birthday party fit for a queen...