Word: retarder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students of university calibre, even according to President Hutchins' standards, who need drilling on elementary work. A total divorce of the two types of institutions of higher learning would greatly hinder, as mass production always will, any possible attention to individual needs. The direct result could only be to retard that "single-minded devotion to the advancement of knowledge" which President Hutchins lauds so highly...
Clipped back Duff Cooper: "Should not Labor decide whether it intends to support or retard recruitment for the British Army...
...Besides the early feeding of water and solid food by mouth, it is also extremely helpful to supply some adjuvant which will furnish bulk, retard bacterial growth and thus help to combat intestinal stasis. This purpose is best served by mineral oil in agar, with or without the addition of phenolphthalein...
...later, the situation might have been very different. Harlow himself has admitted that his first team at Harvard will not be in top form until the pigskin season is well along in ago. The question for the moment is: will the punishment the Varsity is likely to take today retard this eventual success too much? Here's hoping it won't, for there is no one down at Soldiers Field who doesn't feel that given "a break" Harvard's new coaching regime will "produce the goods." TIME...
...method of Drs. William Charles D. Maile and K. J. L. Scott utilizes the shadow effect of one to two ounces of bismuth swallowed with a test meal. That small amount of bismuth does not ascertainably retard digestion, they discovered, after they set to work on three doctors and their wives, one dentist and one medical student. The most surprising fact that Drs. Maile and Scott discovered was that milk is one of the most tedious foods to digest. A pint of rich raw milk takes 6½ hours to get out of the stomach. A pint of boiled milk...