Word: mason
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Approach to Cortin. Dr. Harold Lawrence Mason and his associates at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota are trying to isolate, determine the chemical structure of, and eventually synthesize the potent hormone cortin, secreted by the suprarenal glands. Cortin maintains the potassium, sodium and urea balance of the blood; without it man develops Addison's disease and dies. Last week the Mayo researchers announced isolation of a pure crystalline substance which seems to be a close cousin of cortin. The crystal molecule contains 21 atoms of carbon, 28 of hydrogen, five of oxygen. It seems to have the same effect...
Dinner at the Continental Hotel, Cambridge, at 7.00 o'clock. Reservations may be made at $2.00 each, except for the classes of 1935 and after, who will be admitted without charge. The principal speaker will be Mason Rogers, of the Dewey and Almy Chemical Company, whose chosen title is "Up in the Air--Exploring the Stratosphere with Instrument Carrying Balloons." Charles F. Brooks '11, Director of the Blue Hill Observatory, will speak on the meteorological aspect of such experiments, K. O. Lange will explain and demonstrate the radio meteorograph, and A. E. Bent will talk on radio. Other speakers will...
Died. Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck, 53, first Congresswoman from Illinois (1922-23); after long illness; in Chicago...
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...Farley last week patched together a Veterans Advisory Committee of Spanish War Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, et al. To head this committee he appointed fat, jovial Louis Arthur ("Louie") Johnson, onetime (1932-33) National Commander of the American Legion. Legionary Johnson is also an Elk, a Shriner, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, all of which sodalities consider him a "regular fellow," a potential vote-getter...