Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back as the 1880's scientists were studying the effects and values of foods. Their predecessors had believed that pure carbohydrates, proteins and fats alone were sufficient nutrition to supply an animal with its essential energy, to provide it with material for new growth, to replace its waste tissue. Researchers, including Dr. Hopkins, discovered that animals fed on "pure" diets lost weight and died. He found (1906) that a little milk in the diet kept the animals from dying and concluded that the milk must contain some unknown ingredient (vitamin...
...Hopkins followed up Dr. Eijkman's early work on "pure" diets and vitamins. But more importantly he showed paths for others to follow. In 1913 Cambridge University made him its first professor of biochemistry. Here he made his fundamental contribution to science: by isolating from living cells the sulphur-containing peptide glutathione and demonstrating its great importance for the oxidation processes of the cells. King George made him a knight four years...
...characters (none of which all very well developed), the author has two coldblooded respectable villains, a distinguished authoress, a pure, untainted heroine, a weak-willed mother, a detective, a hero in the form of a nephew of the authoress, and a few minor personages playing lesser parts. In the way of situations, Mr. Reeve has an equally wide variety, none of them wholly credible or real...
Several days later Senator Bingham rose lankily to his full height and spoke in self-defense. He shouted angry charges at the lobby committee, accused it of prejudice, dirty politics, a determination to besmirch his reputation. He insisted his motives were pure, that he had done nothing improper. Rather lamely he accused Senator Elaine, a lobby-hunter, of carrying a capitol policeman (federal paid) to Wisconsin last summer, using him as a chauffeur. This Senator Elaine vehemently denied. Other Senators arose, attacked Bingham without mercy. Senator Norris broadly hinted at a resolution of censure...
...Yale scheme of offense is based on powerful line play pure and simple. There is very little attempt at deception and the overhead department is the customary Eli flop. But the line play is plenty good enough to make the straight running attack dangerous any where and any time...