Word: retarder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Wilson's was but one of the mighty minds whose disintegration the late Professor Francis Xavier Dercum, Philadelphia neurologist, managed to retard. Of all such cases, and of many a pettier one. Professor Dercum kept records. His filing cabinets, like the files of most physicians, described the secret weaknesses and vices of his clients, became invaluable to historians and blackmailers. Professor Dercum died suddenly last year, as he opened proceedings of the American Philosophical Society(TIME, May 4). He had been forethoughtful. In his will he instructed Mrs. Dercum to destroy every case record...
...Alexis Carrel, who has kept a piece of chicken heart growing for 19 years, last week announced his verdict against rejuvenation. Biologists know a great deal now, he wrote, about how people grow old. They probably will learn what is necessary to retard the aging process. But it will be impossible, he declared, to reverse the action...
While H. R. 17054 was still before the Senate Finance Committee for perfunctory consideration, President Hoover did an extraordinary thing that foreshadowed his veto. He wrote an informal but public letter to Chairman Reed Smoot listing his objections to the bill, warning Congress that the bill would retard prosperity by placing an additional burden on the credit and business of the country...
...TIME in its Oct. 17 issue reported that Dr. Allen Buckner Kanavel, president of the American College of Surgeons, said that "The coagula tion caused by the [electro] cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them." TIME was misinformed. President Kanavel's opinion is "quite the opposite...
...mergers pending an investigation of holding companies has never left committee, its influence has helped retard all consolidation moves. Last week the I.C.C took a step forward toward its own consolidation plan (TIME, Dec. 30). It ordered Pennsylvania R. R. to get rid of its 48% stock ownership in Wabash R. R. and 30% stock ownership in Lehigh Valley within six months. These holdings were valued at $106,592,757. The I.C.C. declared that the Perm's interest in these other roads was a violation of the Clayton act. Pennsylvania R. R. claimed it bought into these roads...