Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he has taught at Johns Hopkins since 1893. His researches led to the discovery and synthetic production of Adrenalin, drug that has a startling therapeutic action on the heart muscles.* It can often cause stopped hearts to beat. Only last year he succeeded in preparing insulin in crystalline form. His crystals seem to be the hormone necessary to maintain normal sugar balance in the body and to prevent diabetes...
...which the taxpayers of Massachusetts might well face frankly, but which they will probably prefer to dodge, is set forth effectively by Edith Hamilton MacFadden of Cambridge in her new book, "The Next Question." The subject with which she deals is tax-exemption, which is, of course, just another form of taxation for those whose property is not exempt. She points out that tax-exempt property is rapidly increasing. Its total in Massachusetts up to and including 1925 is $1,188,-768,668, and it is increasing at the rate of $60,000,000 a year. The list...
...Speed, Strength and Endurance," where-in the sprinter learns that scientists can predict his times from only two or three "medical" observations, and so on. Nor do all these facts and thoughts stick out like a sore thumb in the book, as they do here. Far from that, they form part of the fabric of the text, and all contribute to give the reader a clearer and broader view of the place that he and his body, and all "living machinery" hold in the scheme of things...
...bring greater prosperity to business and more of the good things of life to all the people? The answer is in this book-a simple and esay-to-operate plan, revolutionary yet approved by business men, economists, and statesmen. And it is set forth in the form of a story so interesting that busy men-men who have time to read but few books-have read the book thorugh at one sitting...
Another undergraduate literary supplement makes its how in the first appearance of "The Literary Critic" sponsored by the editors of The Dartmouth. Similar in form and content to its contemporaries at Yale, Princeton, New York University and Harvard, the publication aims, according to its prefatory editorial, to combine "usefulness and amusement". And, like the progeny of the above named journals it is obviously a collegiate imitation of the literary supplements of the metropolitan dailies a fact which in no way detracts from its worthiness and which. If successfully accomplished, enhances in value...