Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shatzky had a psychic flash. He ran to the Institute's Director Nolan Don Carpentier Lewis, exclaimed: "This can be the collection of only one man, and he is Sigmund Freud." If his hunch proved wrong, said Librarian Shatzky, he would foot the bill himself. Director Lewis got an appropriation...
...hunch that a way to save teeth from decay might be to encourage the staphylococci by giving them an extra amount of urea to work on. So he made up a mouthwash of carbamide (synthetic urea crystals). The crystals are colorless and odorless, taste cool and salty. He gave the mouthwash to 100 patients to use on their toothbrushes, found that an increased amount of calcium was deposited on their teeth...
...Yale decided to build a Kapitza liquefier. He sent to Cambridge for blueprints. Unwilling to dismantle the machine for the sake of exact measurements, Cambridge sent only sketches, which showed valves in impossible places and other aberrations. Nevertheless Dr. Lane persevered, correcting the mistakes in the sketches by hunch and logic as he went along. It took him three years, cost $5,000. Last week he announced that he had successfully completed a Kapitza liquefier, was making liquid helium for low-temperature research quickly and safely, and at a cost of $5 a quart. It is the only Kapitza liquefier...
...relieved him of his bank roll. It was eight years before he caught on to the New York market. Even then, it took an act of God to give him his first big killing. He was vacationing at Atlantic City in the spring of 1906 when a hunch told him to sell Union Pacific short in the face of a roaring bull market. Two days later the San Francisco earthquake shook $250,000 into...
...yeast, milk, green vegetables, fish and lean meat. It is a cure for pellagra, a diet-deficiency disease common in the southern U. S. but virtually unknown in Britain. Since the filmy, bleeding gums of trench mouth are similar to the symptoms of early pellagra, Dr. King had a hunch that trench mouth, too, might be caused by nicotinic acid deficiency which broke down gum tissue, paved the way for bacterial invasion. So he fed small amounts of the acid dissolved in water to 34 patients with severe trench mouth. All of them recovered, some within 48 hours...