Word: injection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should know," wrote careful Mr. Dewey to some enthusiastic friends lately, "that I am devoting all my time to my duties as district attorney ... and am not a candidate for any other office. . . . Any attempt to inject my name into politics prejudices my work...
Congress last week agreed to inject the U. S. with $3,000,000 this year, $5,000,000 next year and $7,000,000 in 1940 to exterminate the germs which cause syphilis (Treponema pallidum), gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae), and the third but least harmful of the major venereal diseases, chancroid (Hemophilus ducreyi). The money is to be allotted to State and city health officials to buy medicines, to pay doctors and clinics for treatment of venereal victims...
Last August Franklin Roosevelt plucked goggle-eyed Frank McNinch, one of the liveliest members of the Federal Power Commission, and made him chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. His job was to inject some New Deal vigor into the politics-ridden FCC. Last week the results became apparent...
Last week the great problem of taking insulin orally was reported about overcome. The problem has been to ingest this hormone. When swallowed stomach acids and enzymes destroy it, stomach fats render any residues ineffective. Therefore victims of diabetes must inject insulin into their veins...
...stages, they became acutely miserable, carried the syringe to the keeper, ignoring food which had been offered as an alternative choice. Dr. Yerkes declared that, if he had cared to risk the apes' lives for the sake of a sensational stunt, he could easily have taught them to inject themselves. He proposes to experiment with medicinal cures which, if successful, may also prove successful with humans...