Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he began working on vitamin K: he had isolated theelin, a female sex hormone in 1929, and a similar hormone in 1936 (TIME, Aug. 24, 1936). In 1939 he announced that he had analyzed two substances giving the same activity as vitamin K, and recently he patented a method of synthesizing.the vitamin. Synthetic vitamin K, called Menadione (fluid injections or tablets), has saved many lives...
This work is the basis of the well known brain wave machines which detect certain kinds of brain damage, including epilepsy. The recording method is also used to measure the recovery of nerves damaged by wounds or operations...
...popular singers, in any league.* Last week he was well away in a new show as master of ceremonies and star of The Electric Hour (CBS, Wed., 10:30 p.m. E.W.T.). His job: to make listeners feel happy about the 160 electric-light & power companies which sponsor him. His method: songs and banter...
Newspapermen, long familiar with the News'?, aggressive method of fighting libel threats, were inclined to agree with Bob Hannegan. But few thought that hard-headed Joe Patterson either wanted to spare his readers below-the-belt copy, or minded too much the family slight in the cartoon on Cousin "Bertie." Best guess was that astute Captain Patterson wanted no side music to distract attention from the blaring, anti-New Deal tune played daily by his accomplished trio of Editorial Writer Reuben Maury, Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor and Columnist John O'Donnell...
Built on Sand. Furthermore Messrs. Moulton and Mayer held that the Department of Commerce used a faulty method to reach its estimate of $140 billion in national income for the first "normal" postwar year. (Most economists figure on the end of both wars in 1945, the first normal year in 1947.) The Department has "too readily assumed" that the prewar increase in output per man (2½ to 3% a year) has continued during the war. Thus by 1947, according to the Department, the U.S. will have boosted productivity some 20%, and national income accordingly. The Department figures were "taken...