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Transplantation of tissue is no new thing. But, before Dr. Stone's work, skin was the only graft which took with regular success. Gland and other tissue grafts quickly died, because they were a foreign substance in the patient's system. The patient then needed another operation or was obliged to go on a life-long regime of drugs...
...write you suggesting that graft should be eliminated in Harvard-Yale game tickets. The use of the word may distress you. To use it means unjustified, unwarranted, special privilege...
...money $10 a year I can secure better seats than other classmates and other Harvard men who cannot afford the $10 a year. My code of ethics says this is graft. F. W. C. Foster...
...Oakland. Calif, doctors declined Jack Brandon's request that they cut off his right arm, graft it on his friend Harry Weimars, who lost his in an automobile accident...
...distillers swarmed into Washington in an uproar. They preferred some sort of Federal Control to the graft of State politics but this was more than they bargained for. And to the distillers who were just getting started, it looked as if the Government had deliberately lamed all their horses. Their chief objection was to the absolute power of F. A. C. A. Particularly obnoxious was the freezing of capacity at the Dec. 5 figure. Nearly every company was either building or rebuilding plants which would not be completed by that date. These unfinished plants the code simply scrapped. On this...