Word: potentate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shot dead by her husband and goes to Hell. The Devil is there to meet her-"a naked gigantic man" with "flat muscled belly and symmetrical widespread legs." He is "reckless," "virile," "resistless," "incontestable," "beautiful," "sinister," "primordial and unrestrained, fierce, overmastering, intemperate," "an essence ... of masculinity" fraught with "potent magnetism"-in brief, "the man every woman hopes she'll be raped by." Whenever the Devil fulfills these hopes, it causes a thunderstorm to break over Hell; much of Roaring Mountain is devoted to this special type of weather reporting. Cf The Silent Land's hero...
This week the first cortisone from the Danville production line, now pressed into tablets and packed 40 to a bottle, was shipped out. And after cortisone, there would soon be hydrocortisone, latest and most potent of this group of hormones. A team of Merck chemists synthesized it after others had thrown up their hands and declared the job impossible. It is as good as cortisone in many ways, better in some. Whatever its final place in medicine, there can be no question of its eventual value in probing the secrets of the human body...
...Hydrocortisone (Compound F) is more potent than cortisone (Compound E) in treating some eye diseases, said four Philadelphia researchers; it has proved "dramatic" in checking cases of vernal conjunctivitis ("spring catarrh...
...gouty arthritis, said Manhattan's Dr. Estes C. Kidd,. phenylbutazone has shown "remarkable effects," and appears to combine the virtues of colchicine and Benemid, the two best drugs up to now. For the whole range of joint disorders, said Dr. Cornelius Traeger, it is "the most potent non-narcotic analgesic we have...
Quoting Horace Mann ("Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity"), President Conant pointed out that "one of the potent factors in the building of this country has been the idea that a citizen has a civic duty requiring the expenditure of time and effort over a long period of years...