Word: leon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no such animal-human barrier in the work of team members headed by Dr. Leon Hellman. They were dealing with the breakdown products of natural human hormones as they go through the metabolic cycle. From the breakdown of testosterone and related hormones the researchers found two potent derivatives: androsterone and etiocholanolone, with properties different from those of their parent substances. Example: androsterone lowers the level of circulating cholesterol (though testosterone may raise it), may thus be useful in combating atherosclerosis and reducing the danger of heart attacks and many strokes; etiocholanolone triggers a rise in body temperature...
...vast concrete hangar at Wichita's Municipal Airport last week gathered city officials, businessmen and workers to pay homage to "the Henry Ford of the light aircraft industry." His name: Dwane L. (for Leon) Wallace, 47, president of Wichita's Cessna Aircraft Co. A skillful management pilot with a frame (6 ft. 2½ in., 160 Ibs.) as spare as a wing spar and a face as weatherbeaten as a crop-duster's, Dwane Wallace was celebrating his 25th year with Cessna. There was a great deal to celebrate...
Most Wodehouse characters live in England, but they have a curiously American shine to their ways. His heroines would seem the image of Harry Leon Wilson flappers of pre-World War I America-the America first known to Wodehouse-were it not for the fact that they are simultaneously as British as Poet John Betjeman's strong-armed Dianas; they display the "outer crust ... of Miss Marilyn Monroe," and yet still manage to draw from their swains such modish endearments of the British '20s as a "tenderly" spoken "old blighter." Wodehouse heroes are often golfers, but they play...
Other clergymen taking part in the installation service included C. Conrad Wright, Registrar of the Harvard Divinity School, who delivered the sermon, and the Reverend Leon C. Fay, Director of the Department of Ministry of the American Unitarian Association...
Willie Mays is the best baseball player in the major leagues and heads a most exciting outfield of Felipe Alou and Jackie Brandt. Willie Kirkland and Leon Wagner are as able a pair of reserves that could be found. The catching is only adequately set with Bob Schmidt (.244) who is not a big man with the stick...