Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether to have their newborn daughter's eyes taken out, or to let her die from the tumor which was blinding her and which, if not immediately stopped by surgery or X-rays, was sure to reach her brain. The infant's left eye first showed the growth when she was four weeks old. If surgeons had removed that eye at once, the child's right eye might have been saved. The distracted parents turned for advice to Grandfather Dr. Morris Hershman. who discovered the tumor. Dr. Hershman shook his head sadly: "As a physician, I believe...
...Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is fascism-ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any other controlling private power...
Prolactin was found to induce mammary activity in virgin and castrated female and even in male animals; it induced parental behavior in birds and rats; it increased the basal metabolism (heat production) ; it seemed to affect carbohydrate metabolism through the adrenal glands; it caused growth of liver and intestines; it increased the blood's sugar content; and it inhibited the sex glands, causing pigeons' ovaries to stop producing ova and to reabsorb those already formed, and the testes of males to shrink. This last effect, in Dr. Riddle's opinion, was exerted indirectly-by blocking release...
...White. 30-year-old professor of physiological chemistry at Yale University, announced that he had done the trick: extracted prolactin in the form of chemically pure crystals. His first physiological tests of the crystalline hormone seemed to show that it was simply a milk-secreting stimulus. He got no growth response of the abdominal organs, no increase of blood sugar. Other tests for the Riddle reactions were in progress when he made his report. In Cold Spring Harbor last week, Dr. Riddle said he had received some of Dr. White's crystals, but that he had not yet satisfied...
...foundation of the Mellon empire. By one legal maneuver after another ALCOA delayed the trial until it was finally scheduled to start May 2 in Manhattan. Three weeks ago the Department of Justice filed a petition to subpoena ALCOA's files on all transactions relating to its growth; seeking to limit the final trial to as few issues as possible, ALCOA promptly fought the attempt to make this a blanket case. Last week's hearings on this point, therefore, looked like the last skirmish before the trial...