Word: retarder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will minimize the effects of worry and will decrease the effects of nervous breakdowns not caused by pathological conditions. This drug increases the resistance of the living organism to infection by inducing better health. Drugs of this type will not cure progressive lesions and sclerotic conditions; but they will retard the aging of the colloids of the body...
...have lived as long as 36 hours. Then they died because the cell-free hemoglobin changed to methemoglobin which cannot carry life-giving oxygen to suffocating body cells. One of Professor Amberson's problems, before such artificial blood can be widely used, is to find a way to retard the formation of methemoglobin...
...history, uniformly funny and disreputable. No one thinks of Comstock today as anything but a rather bad joke, and leagues for the extirpation of communism are never patronized by capitalists of a measurable fry. The personnel of a large university, so long as they do not work explicitly, may retard the cause of social revolution with great efficiency, just as those who are successfull in the present order may retard it. But when they open their mouths to play Thor, there is nothing but a vacancy better left concealed...
Fewer & fewer people stood in lines before Red Cross relief camp kitchens in Long Beach, Calif, last week. More & more waited in cheerful queues at the Municipal Building to get building permits. No epidemic had erupted. Two minor shocks did not retard inspection of the city's gas mains, some of which were sprung by the earthquake two weeks before. Compton's main street and six blocks in Long Beach were still roped off, but elsewhere in those towns and throughout the stricken area refugees were returning to their homes as fast as the gas was turned...
...those seeking an M.A. degree to permit them to teach in a secondary school; those wishing to do further research before starting industrial work; and those training for a teaching position in a college. The members of the first and second classes far outnumber the third and tend to retard the people trying to get ahead scholastically. President Lowell's action in establishing the Society of Fellows is in part an effort toward freeing these especially gifted men from such restraint...