Word: gall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the Jones-White Act Mr. Herbermann set out to borrow $7,122,750 from the Shipping Board to build his four "Ex" passenger liners. He got the cash at less than 1% interest. When his Government loans began to gall, he went to Washington to get them extended, spent $11,360 in 30 days on "entertainment." The Shipping Board's comptroller recommended disapproval of the extension because Export Steamship owed $3,952,000, had assets of only $1,172,199. Robert Patterson Lamont, then Secretary of Commerce, wrote the Shipping Board that he saw no objection...
...match and whether she should have done it, were by no means all that tennis enthusiasts had to argue about after her default. Dr. Thomas C. Chalmers, who had been attending Helen Jacobs, said he had advised her not to play, described some of her ailments: "Acute inflamed gall-bladder . . . heart condition not as good as it should have been . . . constantly under treatment." Dr. Chalmers said that Miss Jacobs had played only because of "her sporting idea that a champion should defend her title," that during the final she had sustained herself with whiskey capsules...
Died. Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre, 45, second daughter of U. S. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson; after an operation for a gall bladder disorder; in Boston. Her 1913 marriage to Francis Bowes Sayre (now Harvard law professor, Massachusetts Commissioner of Correction) was the 13th White House marriage...
...theme of the work is not new, it is a return to the old attack on the false ideals of modern life, a tract against the prostitution of all that is healthy and wholesome in civilization to selfishness and commercialization. Unlike the gall of Lewis, or the satiric sterility displayed by the editors of Americana, the author finds promise in the prospects for the historic tomorrow; he draws a hopeful contrast between the hectic stampede of America to a vacuous, sordid prosperity, and the Russians, earnestly blundering toward civilization. In the new generation of Americans, which has no need...
...duodenum, eleven inches long, is the beginning of the long small intestine. Here enter juices from the gall-bladder and pancreas. Those juices with the help of the duodenum's own alkaline secretions (mainly sodium bicarbonate), reduce the sour chyme's acidity. While this chemistry is going on, the duodenum pumps the mix forward into the next section of the intestine, the 8 ft. jejunum. During passage through the jejunum the alkalinization of the chyme ordinarily completes itself. The chyme becomes chyle, a creamy, nourishing substance which, while welling through more yardage of intestine, passes into the blood...