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Word: livers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George Minot, William Murphy and George Whipple won the Nobel Prize for their discovery, proved on Brigham patients, that liver extract is effective against pernicious anemia. Other notable Brigham pioneering involved historic work with the artificial kidney, transplanting kidneys between identical twins, and removing both adrenal glands from certain cancer patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Boston Pioneers | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

When Marion Gleason was a busy housewife with four small children, she had an experience that leaves any mother limp: the maid who gave year-old Peter his morning tablespoonful of cod-liver oil picked up the wrong bottle one day, and the baby became violently ill. The bottle contained a strong disinfectant. Peter recovered (he is now, at 31, a radiologist). Last week, thanks largely to that experience, the name of his mother, Marion N. Gleason, appeared as senior author (although she has no degree in medicine or chemistry) over the names of two double-doctorate professors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poison to Taste | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...station, anti-Perón Argentines have begun broadcasting with a stronger transmitter on the same wave band, in an attempt to turn Perón's recorded mouthings into a joke. "We are broadcasting from the heart of the fatherland," spouts Lux 45. "You mean from the liver," answers the anti-Perón transmitter, japing at the Peronistas' bilious tone. "Perón, our leader," chants Lux 45. "Juan Domingo Gunboat." corrects the loyal radio, recalling the dictator's undignified exit aboard a Paraguayan warship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Exile at Work | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...recently refused a $40,000 contract offered by a Hollywood producer with the comment: "I just want to be left alone . . . There's nothing else in life but the booze"). Since the picture was completed, two of the principal supporting players have died from cirrhosis of the liver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...country, and these natives and animals are really getting a load of how nice white people smell." Godfrey was also introducing the natives to such civilized amenities as Blue Bonnet Margarine (sponsor): "We are crazy about it here; we're making blueberry pancakes and frying the liver from the wart hog with it. Everything tastes better with bloop blurp margarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: White Hunter | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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