Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the mechanisms that maintain the body's fluid balance are the small adrenal glands, capping the kidneys. These glands secrete several substances; one of them raises blood pressure, regulates circulation. In 1937 the adrenal hormone, known as cortin, was produced synthetically, given the bristling title desoxycorticosterone acetate. Young Pathologist David Perla of Manhattan's Montefiore Hospital decided to try it as a shock preventive. Last week, in the Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Dr. Perla reported "excellent results...
...repeater of formulas. In 1929 he left his log cabin and went back to Manhattan. His brush has since touched many another phase of U. S. life-touts, lobster fishermen, subways, baseball players, blues singers, lime kilns, Utah strawstacks. Sometimes his paintings are crisp and tight, sometimes loose and fluid. They are always vital. At 53, an art teacher one day a week at the Pennsylvania Academy, James Chapin is still undogmatic. "We are all students together," says he. "I'm trying to learn how to paint...
...like a toga on cold afternoons in the park) ; on the wall, a framed copy of Stanzas on Freedom by James Russell Lowell; on the mantel, two ancient lamps and a cane, carved of wood from Borah Peak in Idaho. The secretaries in the outer office heard his full, fluid voice; the Senator was reading, aloud and twice over, some document which he wanted to memorize. Thus read, it would join his vast store from the Bible, Shakespeare, Britain's Burke and Fox and Pitt, Massachusetts' Daniel Webster, Emerson, many & many another remembered page...
...soubrette, Sophie, in Richard Strauss's gay Rosenkavalier. Iowa-born and California-bred, Harriet Henders had gathered bouquets for eight years in most of Central Europe's leading opera houses, but remained almost unknown in her native U. S. A coy, roly-poly actress with fluid, round-edged top notes, she sang her part with veteran poise. She was tops in Sophies...
...supreme mystery lies in commonplace phenomena, so exquisitely maintained that they excite almost no attention. The regularity of the rhythm of breathing, the constancy of pulse rate, the exact maintenance of body temperature, the beautiful balance of the intake and output of fluid, the cycle of sleep, the integrity of body weight, and the imposed periodicity of the menstrual rhythm-all these ebbs and flows are instrumented primarily through the [hypothalamus...