Word: inhibitive
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...Fleming, penicillin's discoverer, lysozyme is also present in tears and saliva, is found in abnormal amounts in the stomachs of ulcer patients, seems to be produced in extra-large quantities during emotional upsets. The researchers hope that a cure for ulcers may be found in chemicals that inhibit the enzyme (they have already found one inhibitor: dodecyl sulfate...
...realizations and recognitions which we would have the Russians make lie closer to the surface of the Russian mind than we might think. In fact, the more closely they approach the surface, the more violently the Russian tries to inhibit them and to conceal them by vehement protestations in the other direction. It is our business to help him with this problem...
Blood-Stream Ferrets. If atomic radiation can inhibit a gland, why not a cancer cell? Dr. Rhoads reported that in some cases radioactive iodine does seem to control thyroid cancer. Exhibit A: at Manhattan's Montefiore Hospital a patient whose cancerous thyroid gland had been removed was discovered to have cancerous daughter cells from the thyroid scattered throughout his body. When he was given radioactive iodine, the radioactive atoms hunted down the cancer cells like ferrets...
...must not inhibit industry from making profits. Labor, investors and the public generally are entitled to share in the fruits of American technical geniuses." (Here Lewis nodded graciously to the Radio Corporation of America's inventive David Sarnof, who beamed...
...raid had multiple purposes: to ferret out illegal material such as weapons, ammunition, radio transmitters, U.S. uniforms and rations, gasoline; to catch Nazis; to turn up U.S. AWOLs (only a handful); to inhibit black-market operations. A secondary purpose was to test the occupation army's security machinery. It tested very well. Orders for the raid (Codeword: "Tallyho") were distributed three weeks in advance. There were no leaks...