Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rockefeller Institute, has a way of calculating physiological age. He takes blood serum and centrifuges it until the serum is free of cells. In the serum he cultures pure tissue or tissue cells, generally fibroblasts. Simultaneously he cultures the same sort of tissue in a saline solution. The older a person is (physically) the slower will his tissues grow in his serum. The ratio of tissue growth in serum to tissue growth in salt solution is Dr. Carrel's "growth index...
Canada's Sena tor George Dessaulles is a year older than Miss Howland. Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall, John R. Voorhis, is a year younger. Practically every day he goes to work...
...Aaron Burr founded it by ruse in 1799. The older Bank of New York & Trust Co., was founded 1784 by Alexander Hamilton, whom Burr later killed in a duel...
...Story. To race on the tide of five centuries, to be a man for a while and know the thrill of mastery, to be a woman for a spell and know the subtler ecstasy of submission, to grow older in understanding without losing bodily vigor or mental finesse?this is the enviable life, and this is the life of Orlando...
...same sentiment, somewhat complicated but inspired by the same spirit, prevails between the Midshipmen and Cadets and their older brothers, the officers of the Navy and the Army. When the horns of the goat tangle with the elongated ears of the mule upon the athletic field a partisan feeling that claims every spectator be he uniformed or casual, blazes from the stands. To the fevered eye of the midshipman no more damnable sight appears upon the horizon than the solid bank of frenzied, gesticulating, grey-coated maniacs that occupies the opposite stand. For an hour or two he hurls epithets...