Word: grams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole wheat bread, she got two ancient, water-operated grist mills to grind the flour, stubbornly insisting that the gram had better flavor and nourishment when it was ground in that antiquated way. As she continued to expand, she added melba toast, pound cake, etc. to the Pepperidge line. But she was careful not to expand so fast that she could not finance it out of earnings. In all, she has had to borrow only $5,000 outside capital and has kept the company a family enterprise...
Paul E. DesMarais '49 was elected president of the Music Club Tuesday night, at the group's final gathering of the term. Also chosen to direct club activities next fall are Douglas Allanbrook '48 as vice-president, James R. Blake '48 as Secretary-treasurer, and Peter Gram Swing '44 and John T. Swing '50 as Program Committee members...
Thursday--Music Club Concert at Kirkland House, 7 o'clock. All Mozart program; including two quartets for piano and strings; Violin Sonata in E minor; Piano sonata in F. Douglas Allanbrook, piano; Margaret, Tobert, violin; Caroline Manning, viola; Peter Gram Swing, cello...
...ultra-high-speed centrifuge (60,000 revolutions per minute) to separate its protein, and with chemicals refined the protein further. Eventually they isolated a particle less than two-billionths of an inch in diameter. The protein particle proved to be 80 to 95% pure virus; a billionth of a gram of it, injected in a cotton rat, produced symptoms of polio...
...streptomycin also had some failures. Against typhoid fever, undulant fever and Salmonella (certain kinds of food poisoning), streptomycin showed "no dramatic results." The drug is also mildly toxic in doses above one gram a day: 20% of the patients treated had headaches, fever, skin rashes or dizziness...