Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music here at Harvard and has written several textbooks which are in use in the department. He has been composing all his life, and this Suite in E major is one of his more recent productions. Of the magnificent Brahms Symphony, little need be said except "Don't miss it!" During the holidays, the regular Friday and Saturday concerts fall on December 24 and 26, and January 1 and 2. Gregor Piatigorsky is to be the soloist at the former pair and Sergei Rachmaninoff at the latter...
Rosemary discipline is strict. One girl was expelled for smuggling in and eating a five-pound box of chocolates. Another ate a single grape after hours and wrote a conscience-stricken note to Miss Ruutz-Rees, thereby losing permission to attend her Rosemary Feast that year...
...modestly euphemizes as "other fluids." On the fifth day she takes a half-teaspoonful of cystine, cysteine, d-1-methionine, l-methionine, cystine-disulfoxide, sulfonic acid or cysteic acid, the seven body sulfur compounds crystallized by Lankenau's Chemist Gerrit Toennies. For the next 24 to 36 hours Miss Medes remains alone and foodless in her laboratory taking samples of her blood every half-hour, other fluids whenever possible. The week-long experiment over, she then goes to her boarding house, a block away from her laboratory, to recover from starvation with a three-day diet of fruit juices...
...medicine to hasten the healing of sores and wounds. Such substances may in some way be connected with the unknown physiological accidents which give rise to cancer. On the other hand, other sulfur compounds inhibit growth. These may be the body's regular protective guard against cancer. Miss Medes has made it her job to find out the answer to this phase of the cancer question, no matter what the cost. Thus far the brave scientist has discovered in her body none of the lumps, malaise, sores, cachexia that harbinger the world's most frightful blight. Said...
Energetic Modie Jr. decided Spiegel's required housecleaning. In place of the 2,700,000 catalogs which had been sent out hit or miss in 1929, he made up a more selective list, 900,000 shorter, on which he began to double the returns. The money he saved on publishing he spent on fancying up the catalog, testing products and types of illustration and copy. He created a department to study the costs of business getting, cut them down to about 5% of the price of each item compared to the usual 10% in mail-order houses. He discovered...