Word: gammas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduate of Wells College at Auburn, N. Y., were college women. But Mrs. Coolidge is a graduate of the University of Vermont, 1902, and a Pi Beta Phi. In fact she is a charter member of her chapter which was organized in her home. (The President is a Phi Gamma Delta of Amherst...
...proved that cancerous tissue has an excess of positive charge which may be neutralized by the application of an equal negative charge. This explains why X-ray and radium treatment, in which the alpha or positive rays are screened off by a lead shield, while the beta and gamma rays (negative) are allowed to reach the diseased tissue, have had good results. Colloids of certain elements, such as iodine, sulphur, lead, mercury, have strongly negative charges, and several American physicians are experimenting with colloidal sulphur, while the treatment of Dr. Bell, of Liverpool (TIME, June 11), is based on colloidal...
...Gamma chapter of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, an honorary engineering society corresponding to the Phi Beta Kappa in colleges of liberal arts was established and chartered at the Engineering School last night. For over a year the School has been petitioning for a charter. It is the third chapter to be founded in Massachusetts, the Alpha chapter being at the Worcester Polytechnical School and the Beta chapter at Technology. The Fraternity which has headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., is especially strong in the Middle West...
...world's greatest authorities on blood sugar, asserts that no complete cure of diabetes has yet been found, though he recognizes the value of insulin. There are eleven forms of sugar glucose, he says, of which the body can utilize only a few. If these so-called "gamma" compounds can be isolated from glucose and the diet limited to them, it is certain that diabetes can be cured. But the world's present knowledge of these sugars is barely a scratch on the surface...
...dinner. On Thursday, December 28, the American Psychological Association will hold a luncheon and an informal dinner for 200 in the Living Room, and on Friday, December 29, the American Physical Society will hold its last luncheon during the convention. Following an afternoon meeting in the Quiet Room the Gamma Alpha Scientific Fraternity will hold a dinner at 7 o'clock in the Faculty Room. At the same time the American Physical Society will hold a dinner in the Living Room...