Word: injection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suffer any real deprivation, since, by definition, they are the ones who do not take advantage of tutorial opportunities anyhow. Third, the time which tutors now waste on unresponsive students could be employed productively on their own research and writing. Fourth, the promotion of brilliant younger men would inject new blood into the Faculty, and at the same time would reduce the turnover in tutorial personnel, giving the tutorial staff a semblance of permanence which it has hitherto lacked. Finally, the advancement of the best tutors would encourage all the rest, since it would at last become apparent that tutoring...
...minute a woman becomes pregnant certain hormones appear in her urine. If she wants to make sure of her pregnancy and can afford the expense, she may send a vial of her urine to her obstetrician. He will have a laboratory associate condense the specimen and inject some of it into the belly of a $1.50 virgin rabbit or a 20? virgin mouse. After two or three days the laboratory associate will kill the rabbit or mouse and examine its ovaries. If the ovaries are swollen, that shows that the woman is pregnant. The obstetrician then sends her the report...
...these changes would weaken Harvard's educational machinery, but feel, on the other hand, that the best students would be given more freedom and incentive to do excellent work. From the tutor's standpoint, there would be more time for research and writing, the promotion of younger men would inject new blood into the Faculty, and the advancement of the best tutors would encourage the rest...
...fact that price-fixing- price-raising at the start-often cut into volume, reduced employment and retarded recovery, an amazing number of businessmen are still enthusiastic about it. But last fortnight S. (for Samuel) Clay Williams, NIRB Chairman, revealed that the Administration would frown on any attempt to inject price-fixing provisions into new NRA legislation, arguing that an NRA floor under wages was, in effect, a floor under prices...
...disease's mortality rate runs up as high as 30%. Once a person is infected, the only specific treatment has been to inject him with "convalescent" serum taken from someone who has survived an attack of the disease. Not all survivors show signs of paralysis. And not all of the paralyzed are permanently so. If a paralyzed muscle twitches when the doctor applies an electric current to it, the nerve is not entirely destroyed. By careful training the muscle can learn to work again. If the nerve is dead, the muscle wastes away and never recovers. President Roosevelt will...