Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specific enzyme on which Dr. Innerfield has been working is trypsin, a secretion of the pancreas. In some situations, claims Dr. Innerfield, trypsin can be the answer to a doctor's prayer. As a therapeutic agent, it effectively speeds up the body's host reaction to injuries. Moving in the blood stream to an area of inflammation, trypsin can stimulate the white corpuscles there to prodigious feats of valor against invading organisms...
...Host Molotov was plainly irritated at his fellow party Presidium member, First Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovich, who, despite repeated shushings, insisted on proposing toast after toast, while waspish Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan heckled him from the side. At one point Kaganovich, a former Ukrainian commissar, called the company's attention to "the great friendship of all peoples of the So viet Union," listing the Soviet states with one pointed omission. "What about the Georgians?" snapped Armenian Mikoyan, an old friend of Georgian Lavrenty Beria who had been arrested four months before. "Oh yes," said Kaganovich without enthusiasm, "the Georgians...
...naval cavalry. This concept assumed decisive battles between surface fleets and saw the destroyers plunging ahead to close range, firing their torpedoes at enemy battleships and wheeling away, their thin sides throbbing, under protective smoke screens. The destroyers learned to deal with submarine wolf packs, planes and a host of unpredictables, including even the need to fight in the old cavalry fashion...
...five won twice and lost once in the eight team tourney to bring its record to four and four for the season. Its wins were against Amherst and Sprinfield, and it lost to the host team...
Princeton, last year's Pentagonal champions, Brown, favored to win this year's Ivy title, and host R.P.I., last year's unofficial Eastern champions, fell successively before the Canadian onslaught. St. Francis topped R.P.I., with six Canadians of its own, by a 4 to 1 count in the tourney final...