Word: glanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most baffling glands in the body is the thymus. It lies just below the neck and behind the top of the breastbone, and in all the centuries that man has been studying physiology, its purpose has been unclear. It has hitherto fallen to butchers, marketing the thymus of the lamb and calf as the "neck sweetbread," to give the gland its only obvious usefulness. Now a British cancer researcher...
...earliest panacea peddlers to cross the Rio Grande was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the ''goat-gland" tycoon who exploited his failing listeners' yearnings for potency to the tune of some $1,000,000 a year before he died bankrupt...
...surprise with a .299 average, 18 home runs, 55 runs batted in. Sober, balding Eddie Kasko developed into one of the most reliable shortstops around. At third, Freese. reputed to be a weak glove man, was fielding, as Pittsburgh Manager Danny Murtaugh put it, "like he had a monkey gland...
...most widely available oral contraceptives today are and Norlutin, manufactured respectively by G.D. Searle and Davis. The compounds closely resemble progesterone, a female hormone. Progesterone is secreted each month by the bearing follicles after ovulation has occurred. It passes through blood stream so as to effect the pituitary gland which in turn the production of F.S.H.--the so-called "follicle-stimulating Without F.S.H. the immature egg follicles cease growing. If caption occurs, the secretion of progesterone continues through out pregnancy...
...monkey-gland business was a little unusual for W. R. Hearst, who never knowingly shook the hand of anyone remotely connected with vivisection. Even the rats at San Simeon were trapped in cages and transported several miles to be released. "The Chief" was less tender toward his editors. The best story of the fear he inspired in them is probably apocryphal. One frequently terrified editor, "Bugs" Tuttle, begged an assistant to open a telegram one day. "Your mother is dead," read the message. "Thank God!" Bugs Tuttle reportedly said. "I thought it was a wire from Mr. Hearst...