Word: gram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University research fellow is working with ACTH, the miracle pituitary hormone used to treat arthritis. Martin G. Ettlinger research fellow in Chemistry, said yesterday that his work may be a first step in producing ACTH at a far lower cost than its present $100-a-gram price...
...make students remember, a teacher "must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health." Nor can he get away with a shaky memory ("ridiculous and dangerous," says Highet, "like . . . a doctor who gives one gram of digitalis instead of one grain. . . or a merchant who cannot find the goods his customers want"). And if he lectures in the stumbling, halting manner of a Stanley Baldwin, he runs the risk of having the same effect: "Half an hour of [it] put everybody to sleep. Several years of it put Britain to sleep...
...this biggest, gram blindest class has decided that it will make up its own mind about certain issues of some importance. It has had these issues dropped in its lap by the College, and has heard evidence; it has made up its mind on some issues now, and will decide others in the future. Harvard has provided techniques for thinking and deciding. The questions on which decisions are to be made have properly been left to the individual's selection...
...time the chemist slips out of the bear hug, the U.S. Army, Navy and FBI are hunting him down like a lost gram of plutonium. Faced with Government control on either side of the political divide, the chemist surrenders to Big Business, and safe in a gilded cage, with a gorgeous chickadee to keep him company, he settles back to watch his pill take effect...
...thing to do, Dr. Schemm decided, was to cut down the sodium taken in with food, to less than a gram a day (practicable only on a hospital diet). Thus, metabolic acids could take up the sodium already in the body, and give the kidneys enough water so that they could work properly and flush out the sodium salts through the urine-"using water as a medicine, which it is." By 1937 Dr. Schemm was telling Montana colleagues that his treatment was a success. "Restriction of water," he said, "is useless, harmful and a cause of suffering...