Word: marrow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marrow curdling wing that sprang up early in the afternoon, bringing with it damp and chilly weather almost worthy of a Yale weekend, set the stage for last Wednesday's final day of a six weeks' spring football season...
...Yellow Marrow. Often large doses of sulfa drugs drain the body's reserves of white blood cells. (So does arsphenamine, the syphilis specific, and certain sedatives and painkillers.) A deficiency of white blood cells may also be caused by disease of the bone marrow, where most of them are produced. This form of blood disease, known as agranulocytosis or leukopenia, leaves the body at the mercy of any bacteria which may enter the bloodstream. For the white cells, which move about like amebae, are the body's shock troops; they gobble up invading bacteria, produce antidotes which neutralize...
Last week Dr. Harry Nicholls Holmes, head of the chemistry department at Oberlin College and president-elect of the Chemical Society, told how he had found a remedy for this fatal disease. With a group of colleagues, he had tried to find the exact chemicals in bone marrow which stimulate the production of white blood cells. After three years of tedious labor, in which they used over 200 Ib. of yellow-marrow from cattle bones, the scientists extracted about one ounce of alcohol. This they separated into two component parts: batyl alcohol and chimyl alcohol. When they examined the chemical...
...battle which was in progress last week would be remembered in history above the great battles of Lord Nelson-the Nile (1798), which broke Napoleon's Oriental ambitions, and Trafalgar'(1805), which limited his ambitions in Europe-remained to be seen. Those affairs exposed the marrow of British power. One summer evening at Abukir Bay, after a maddening two months' search in which his fleet had been without benefit of speedy frigates for scouting, Nelson with his 14 ships of the line came on the fleet of 15 Frenchmen at anchor. Moving down both sides...
...past five years the National Youth Administration has been one of the largest items in the University's boneheap of contentions. By now, thanks to students' articles, deans' reports, and government propaganda, it has been chewed down to the very marrow. The latest addition to the process of mastication is the Student Council's report on the subject, favoring adoption of the N.Y.A. Work Program by Harvard as soon as possible...