Word: procession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kahn gives credit to Dr. H. U. Nolan, an English industrial chemist, for the suggestion of the process of manufacture, though its medical application was worked out by himself and Dr. McKee. Dr. Kahn is 36 years old, a graduate of Cornell Medical School, and has spent four years in constant research on problems of metabolism. Physicians and chemists who are in a position to judge have accepted the scientific foundation of intarvin as sound, and there is reason to believe that it will soon take its place beside insulin as an approved treatment, though neither can yet be called...
...value of his holdings, Stinnes, in conjunction with the other industrials, compelled the Reichsbank to abandon its attempt to stabilize the mark by "official" quotations. The dollar started its climb from the official 283,000 marks "to a probable 1,000,000 by the end of the month." This process will enable Stinnes to pay practically nothing for his recently acquired properties and thus releases his resources for his next step. His income is not affected by this depreciation, for he regulates prices strictly on the basis of dollar exchange values, putting the capital thus obtained into new investments...
...Bureau of Mines, under 0. P. Hood, Chief Mechanical Engineer, is working on a process to produce lignite char, a fuel similar to anthracite, but softer. In Germany this material is widely used for heating and cooking, but the competition of high-grade coals has kept it back in America. With the gradually increasing scarcity of good anthracite and bituminous, lignite will become a valuable substitute...
...space, greatly increasing the flow of the hormones. The effect is to turn the gonad into an exclusively ductless gland. The same general results are produced as in the case of transplantation. Steinach himself makes no extravagant claims. He calls the effect " arrest within modest limits of the process of senility," and says the use of the term " rejuvenation " is unfortunate. It is merely the prolongation for varying periods of the normal functions of middle life...
Preliminary experiments on rats have shown that the process cannot be continued indefinitely. The two gonads may be operated on in turn, and then new cells may be transplanted, but each time the return of senility is more acute, and the vitality burns out more quickly. So that human beings who contemplate the Steinach or Voronoff operations may find their last state worse than their first. Other critics have pointed out that the sex glands are only one factor in the regulation of old age, and that for complete arrest of senility, all the ductless glands would have...