Word: marrow
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...knives, drills, engraving implements, hammers. Extending over a half-mile, the site was apparently once a lush pasture where Pleistocene animals, following the retreating ice rim, came to feed. That the hunters were contemporaries of the animals was perfectly plain because from most of the animal bones the toothsome marrow had been scraped...
...attack of diabetes in 1921 gave Dr. Minot the clue to liver as the stuff which would best regenerate the marrow's red-cell powers. Before Drs. Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Herbert Best of the University of Toronto discovered insulin (1921), Dr. Minot kept himself alive by watching his diet. Dieting made him a food faddist. Faddism made him ask his pernicious anemia patients what they ate. Thus he discovered that most never touched meat or green vegetables. From Johns Hopkins' Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum, Dr. Minot learned that liver was rich in proteins and vitamins which...
Experiments showed Dr. Kracke that the pain-killers which he suspected inhibit the production of germ-killing white blood cells in the marrow. A sore throat or a cut finger uses up white cells. No others come from the marrow to replace them. Eventually the body has too few white cells available to fight off the invasion of germs. Along comes a cold, and the granulopenic (poor in white cells) person dies with shocking suddenness...
...vitally necessary red service cells. Leucemia always makes prolonged news for it kills inexorably, a white death which occasionally relaxes, but never releases its hold. There are three main kinds of leucemia: 1) chronic myelogenous leucemia; 2) chronic lymphatic leucemia; 3) acute leucemia. In the chronic myelogenous type the marrow, which produces blood cells, is most affected. Certain white blood cells are produced in exorbitant numbers. They hamper the production of red blood cells and choke off those which manage to get into the blood stream. Result is that the leucemia victim grows anemic, dies. The same bedside picture follows...
...marked likeness to the 18 volumes of one James Branch Cabell, who announced in 1929 that he would write no more of the Biography of the Life of Manuel. Now 54, Author Cabell has found it impossible to change his spots. A much-gnawed bone of contention, with little marrow left. Author Cabell can still rouse his faithful followers to delight. Considered by himself and his admirers the most polished of U. S. writers, Cabell is often accused of writing in Wardour St. style-defined by Lexicographer H. W. Fowler as "... a selection of oddments calculated to establish...