Word: glandularly
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Died. Arthur James ("Emperor") Cook, 46, general secretary of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, longtime left wing Labor leader, a prime inciter of the British general strike of 1926; after an operation for a glandular swelling of the neck; in London...
...made by Dr. Ralph Arthur Reynolds, 38, of San Francisco last week, intrigued doctors and criminologists. Where did he get his data? At California's San Quentin prison where he and Dr. Leo Leonidas Stanley, 43, prison physician, discovered that every one of the inmates had some abnormal glandular stigma. Three score they treated by surgery or with glandular extracts. All responded with "surprisingly beneficial" results, suggesting therefore a way of reforming criminals...
...confused with the ichthyosaurus, another, larger reptile with a tremendous head, practically no neck, four complex flippers; nor with the famed giant dinosaur which often attained a length of 70 feet, whose four appendages were limbs adapted for land travel. †The pineal (glandular) body in the human brain, which is subtly related to certain conditions of obesity and certain sexual phenomena, is generally considered to be the vestige of a third...
...Berlin, last week, Professor Eugen Steinach, medical Ponce de Leon, announced his possible discovery of a glandular fountain of youth. Injecting pituitary serum into docile, doddering rats, he noticed that they grew hair, an appetite, and sprightliness...
Adenoids are an overgrowth of the glandular tissue above the soft palate and back of the nasal passages. They can be felt by sticking the forefinger into the adenoidal individual's mouth and hooking the first phalanx of the finger over his soft palate. The finger will come out covered with blood, for the adenoids bleed very easily...