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Cortisone is made, in 37 chemical steps over a six-month period, from the bile of slaughtered oxen (40 head are required for a single daily dose). Merck & Co., who make it, produce only about 1½ ounces a week. Acutely conscious of the desperate demand, research chemists have been plugging away at the problem, trying to speed the process and eventually mass-produce the drug...
Last week, hundreds of Boyden's boys were back at Deerfield for the school's 150th anniversary. The school put on a pageant, complete with oxen, stagecoach, blunderbusses, and a tableau of the Deerfield Massacre of1704.* But the sight most visitors had come to see was Frank Boyden himself...
...shockproof, indefatigable novelist and social chronicler; in San Francisco. She scored her first success in 1902 with The Conqueror, a novelized biography of Alexander Hamilton, later established her name with her historical novels and social histories of California. In 1923 she hit the jackpot with her top bestseller, Black Oxen, which described her own sexual rejuvenation by X-ray treatment...
...know, Fleegle, a saturnine resident of Brooklyn, has eyes of compelling power. Mother Nature, in a misguided moment, endowed him with the ability to transmit visual whammies. A single whammy can stop a policeman in his tracks. Slightly stronger whammies will tame a gorilla or stun a herd of oxen. Rarely, only rarely, does Fleegle loose the lightning bolt of a double whammy, which is powerful enough to heat a city the size of Wilkes-Barre...
...majority of these laws are rather old, dating back to the late 1880s. Under a 1893 statute, for instance, no goats, sheep, domestic fowl, swine, horses, oxen, or cows are allowed to ream at large through the streets...