Word: furthered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minerals for Diabetics. Analyzing insulin, whose active principle has not yet been isolated,* chemists find minute traces of cobalt and nickel, so some diabetics are now being experimentally fed with cobalt and nickel salts. Scientists coupled this observation with the known fact that soil qualities modify the characteristics of peoples...
Justice could not avenge them, for want of evidence. But shrewd fellow peasants blamed the poisoning, last week, upon surviving Widower Niklos and surviving Widow Graf, whom the peasants further suspected of being adulterers.
Most promising, however, was the action of the New York Clearing House Association. Said the Clearing House: Banks shall refuse to put the money of the corporations out on call in amounts less than $100,000. Further, they shall increase their service charge on loans made for others from 5...
The great many subjects in the present collection bristle with further grievances-none of them new; flimsy partitions in European hotels; doctors' persistence in dealing with symptoms rather than causes; England's refusal to adopt the efficient decimal system; U. S. film kings; man's servitude to...
Many a movie man smiled; it was a moral victory for the motion picture over the stage. The "legits" had been forced to fight the cinema with weapons that the cinemagnates introduced. But no smile twisted the cheeks of the more astute picturemen. To these wiser ones the action of...