Word: hunching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warfield Monroe Firor of Johns Hopkins has long worried about this paradox. About 18 months ago he got the hunch that the tetanus toxin which causes the first stage of the disease must be different from the poison which causes the second fatal stage. To test his hunch he injected both small and large amounts of tetanus toxin directly into the spinal cords of more than 60 dogs. The injections were always followed by muscular paroxysms and death, even though 100 times the neutralizing dose of antitoxin was in the bloodstream and even though some doses of the poison were...
...hunch that hearing as well as smell was influenced by sex hormones, the researchers, with the aid of Professor David Landsborough Thomson, collected 39 women and 16 men who suffered from progressive deafness caused by diseased nerves or bony growths in the inner ear. They dropped small doses of estrogen mixed with one cubic centimeter of oil into the patients' noses once a day for periods ranging from three months to two years...
...order a General Strike when Premier Daladier broke up the French Popular Front (TIME, Nov. 7), or on account of the "rape of Czechoslovakia," or immediately after Daladier announced his latest batch of decree-laws. In fact, a Labor leader chooses to general-strike when he gets a hunch he can win. It was on such a hunch that Labor Tsar Jouhaux acted last week. He has his desk in the control tower of the French General Labor Confederation's renovated, seven-story Paris "skyscraper." There last week he telephoned, telegraphed his labor-general-staff orders throughout France...
Last week in Public Health Reports Dr. Armstrong told how he worked out his hunch. He washed the noses of normal white mice with salt water, then pooled the washings and dropped minute amounts of bacteria grown from the mixture into the nostrils of 200 mice several times in one week. After two days' rest he inoculated their noses, and the noses of 100 healthy control mice, with large quantities of sleeping sickness virus. More than 60% of the mice with "colds" survived the sleeping sickness injections; of the healthy, untreated mice, less than 25% survived...
Another Williams news hunch came last week...