Word: journalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chicken that comes out of the egg. Farmers' wives may still think so, but biologists know better. It is a chromosome that does the business, whether the offspring is a fruit fly's or a man's. To predetermine sex, control the chromosome. In the Journal of Heredity, organ of the American Genetic Association, Princeton Biologist E. Newton Harvey...
Ribald allusions to "Doctor de Kruif" (Bacteriologist de Kruif has a Ph.D., no M.D.) were a stock joke at the A.M.A. Convention last fortnight. Last week in the A.M.A. Journal Federal Narcotics Commissioner H. J. Anslinger viewed with alarm De Kruif's latest discovery: Demerol ("God's Own Medicine-1946," Reader's Digest for June), a painkilling drug which acts much like morphine but is not, said De Kruif, habit-forming...
...means the first time De Kruif's knuckles had been rapped in the A.M.A. Journal. Among other condemned De Kruif marvels...
...There is no historical record of how & when Cleaveland became Cleveland. The legend: one of the town's earliest editors dropped the A because it made his journal's masthead too long; no one complained, so it was never used again. *Among other good catches: a Glenn L. Martin plastics plant; a Butler Brothers metallurgical plant; a Fruehauf Trailer Co. assembly factory. *Greater Cleveland (pop. 1,250,000) is Cuyahoga County. Cleveland has 13 suburbs ranked as cities (the largest is Lakewood with 65,900 population) and 41 suburbs ranked as villages...
Last week Dr. Read had found a disciple in the U.S. A New Jersey doctor, Blackwell Sawyer of Lakewood, announced (in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology) that he had tried Dr. Read's approach on 168 patients, with success in nine out of ten cases. Comments of mothers: "the happiest moment of my life," "it did not amount to anything...