Word: oval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pituitary seems to be the most important gland in the body. It is a reddish-grey oval mass the size of a hazel nut, and lies in a bony case at the base of the brain. Apparently the pituitary keeps all the other glands teamed up. (The thyroid keeps them steamed up.) If the pituitary gland does not supply the secretions which the body needs, doctors in some cases can remedy the deficiency by administering manufactured extracts. In case of too much ''secretion, extracts of other glands restrain the overactive pituitary. Sometimes a brain surgeon...
Haitians call deliberate blanching "ouarization." They call darkening "haitianization." Jean-Joseph Dauphin "ouarized" himself by accident last summer. He asked his father, a brewer of herbs, for some "ouarit" beans to cure his asthma. The ouarit, sometimes called sea bean, is an oval, black-striped red bean about the size of a large lima bean. Jean-Joseph Ysmeon Dauphin's father told him to take only a speck of ouarit at a time, because the bean was an aphrodisiac. Jean-Joseph is 57. Suffering, he decided to kill or cure. He took a whole bean each day for five...
...taprooms, cafes and beer gardens were hung in Manhattan's Industrial Mart, an idea showroom for the hotel & restaurant trade. One Peter Copeland, an architect who has not paid his rent in two months, won the first prize for both cafes and taprooms. His cafe had a modernistic oval bar in blue and white. One Kate Hall won first prize for a beer garden design, showing tables around a mammoth blue vase and plots of pink flowers, the walls shaded by a yellow awning. One contestant entered a design for a cafe with a glass front that could...
...slight inaccuracies regarding "No. 1 Inflationist Thomas." Senator Elmer Thomas has been lampooned for three years by most of the Washington correspondents. It was not surprising that they largely underestimated his ability and quickly assumed that "the Squire took him into camp" when Thomas walked out of the Oval room of the White House with his revised Senate bill. Before the Senate silverites had cast an amazing total of 33 ayes for inflation of the coinage of silver, Senator Thomas had sent his perfected measure to President Roosevelt. It was a four-lined pitchfork with which to heave prices into...
...announced that the station at Lakehurst would be decommissioned "in the near future." With the Akron gone, the Los Angeles in dead storage, the Macon already assigned to Sunnyvale, the Navy could not afford to maintain the eastern base. Besides the sugarloaf dock at Sunnyvale, a huge landscaped oval encompasses some 40 lesser structures: a helium repurification plant, a 2,000,000-cu. ft. helium tank (like a city gas tank), two other tanks each holding 2,000,000 cu. ft. under pressure; a locomotive shed, ice-making plant, quarters for married officers, "BOQ"' (bachelor officers' quarters), enlisted...