Word: nugget
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...this bulging was not in the individual's thyroid itself, although the thyroid was overworking as hard as any goitrous thyroid. By systematically shuffling the hormones of many creatures, he found that the seat of Graves's Disease is in the pituitary gland, a chestnut-sized nugget lying midway between the temples. Through its many hormones the pituitary in one way or another manages the activities of practically all the other ductless glands. One of the pituitary's hormones, Professor Loeb found, specifically excites the thyroid and causes the eyes of a victim of Graves...
...when a spark from a nearby chimney lit on the roof of the Golden Gate Hotel. A 34-mi. wind puffed the flames through every room. From the Golden Gate Hotel the fire spread rapidly to the business section on Front Street. Up went the offices of the Nome Nugget, up went the airplane office, saloons, poolrooms, garages, almost every business place in town. By nightfall every building in Nome was in ruins except the Government wireless station, which sent out the bad news, one hotel, a hospital and Lomen Commercial Co.'s north side warehouse. The winter food...
...traced Tom Jensen down to Seattle, heard that he had raffled off a nugget bracelet belonging to Sweet Marie on the boat, had cashed the gold dust at the Seattle assay office. His trail led down to San Francisco, across through Texas, faded in New Jersey...
...hour and twenty minutes the President talked. ("We discussed silver," said Senator Harrison, "from the time of the finding of the first nugget.") He tried to induce them to modify their proposal, told them that he could not accept it as it stood...
...next year his first long-distance message ("What hath God wrought") flashed over a government line from the Capitol's Supreme Court chamber (now its library) in Washington to Baltimore. Last week President Hoover inaugurated the centennial of the Morse idea when he ceremoniously fingered a gold-nugget-studded telegraph key in the White House. At his touch a high speed automatic transmitter began rattling out the President's message in the Capitol library: "I am glad . . . source of pride . . . honor to his country . . . inspiration to mankind...