Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private, audiences have been suspended for the present. Before his election to the Papacy he was a doughty mountain climber. Age, not immuration, is responsible for his present frailty. Next May His Holiness will be 72 years old. U. S. Numbers. To the Vatican, whose thick old walls fraction the blaze of Italian summer into cool nooks for the serene observation of world happenings, went the news last week that in ten years the U. S. Catholic population had increased by virtually 20%. In 1916 the numbers had been 15,721,815; in 1926 they had been...
...Albee believed he could ameliorate if not cure the Heath case of arthritis. Plan: To open up the knee and hip joints and scrape away the freak bone formation; to line the knee joints to prevent fraction with fat and connective tissue from the thighs; to replace the excised, but normal, bones and skin. That is what...
Each one of these substances, when injected into the animal body has a specific effect. One of them, the phosphatide fraction, makes cells grow wildly and rapidly, giving the effect of cancer. Over 20 laboratories and organizations are cooperating in the research under the joint guidance of the Public Health Service and the National Tuberculosis Association: the results justify hope of a more rapid solution of this baffling disease. Dr. White feels that the same scientific concentration method should be applied to fields of study in industry, agriculture, medicine...
...shoe, cautious people often buy bonds. There is a feeling of safety in a crisp bond; it is backed up by buildings, lands, machinery, steel, coal?things. People can go and see or touch the things that make their bonds secure. But what about newspaper bonds? Only a fraction of their security is based on buildings and presses; the rest is good-will (of readers and advertisers). Indeed, a cautious investor might be alarmed if he asked himself the question: "How do I know definitely that anyone is going to buy this newspaper tomorrow or that anyone is going...
...puppies are worth more money. With this speculative element in the sport, breeding pedigreed dogs becomes a business. Talavera Margaret, for instance, the winner of the show, was when very young sold by her breeder for $15. Later, he rebought her and sold her for $1,250, a fraction of her present value. The prizes offered in dog shows, unlike those for horse races, promise no great profits; these are to be secured merely by owning a dog whose puppies or self will be accepted in exchange for large sums of money by fanciers who wish to be honored...