Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, penicillin was produced only in small flasks (relatively easy to protect against contamination) from a strain of the mold, Penicillium notatum. In Dr. Coghill's laboratory, mycologists developed new, heavier-yielding strains. They also found that the mold's growth could be greatly speeded in a brew of lactose made from skimmed milk and steep liquor made from corn...
...biggest step forward was the development of a method of making penicillin in tanks instead of in flasks. The tank ("submerged") method has saved much labor, cut the minimum cycle of the mold's growth from six to three days, helped cut the price of penicillin nearly 85%. Present average costs of penicillin treatments: $35 for severe septicemia (1,000,000 units), $5 for gonorrhea (150,000 units...
...Condition of Man is Volume III of this massive project. Volumes I & II: Technics and Civilization, a history of man as a user of tools, machines and apparatus (TIME, May 7, 1934); The Culture of Cities, the growth of the modern "megalopolis" (TIME, April 18, 1938). Like the first two volumes, The Condition of Man is erudite, lengthy (467 pages), cocksure. It is jampacked with the "tangled elements of Western man's spiritual history," from the Mosaic tablets to the New Deal. Author Mumford is usually dogmatic, often insensitive, occasionally discerning. Sometimes he writes with the vehemence...
...these were good reasons for Dies to step down, but they did not make his throat ailment a phony alibi. Friends say he has a growth in his larynx that may require a Mayo Clinic operation...
...Willy dreamed about her chestnut stallion-the only creature she could bring herself to love. Cousin Daphne (her bridegroom had abandoned her on their wedding night when he found she had no money) toyed with the more poisonous specimens of her beloved collection of rare mushrooms. Suddenly the rank growth that ringed the old house parted and Granddaughter Catherine Lewis Chapman stumbled onto the porch. Her husband had been unfaithful to her and she had fled desperately from Manhattan to the only refuge she knew...