Word: salting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serum he cultures pure tissue or tissue cells, generally fibroblasts. Simultaneously he cultures the same sort of tissue in a saline solution. The older a person is (physically) the slower will his tissues grow in his serum. The ratio of tissue growth in serum to tissue growth in salt solution is Dr. Carrel's "growth index...
...great naval duckhunter is Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, who likes to have a Navy plane carry and fetch him between Washington and the salt marshes during the duck season. The new Barnegat order is not likely to disturb Duckhunter Robinson, nor any other Washington dignitary. From Washington one does not go northeast to shoot the wary?and slightly fishy?birds of Barnegat. One either goes due east, to the swarming Chesapeake ; or southeast, to the Rappahannock, York and James estuaries, to the drowsy Virginia Capes, to Currituck (where the luxurious blinds are con crete and have...
...Wallachia; to contract the alliance is essential, but to do so it is also essential that the Prince of Moldavia marry the proud Princess of Wallachia. The true prince is unwilling to bother with preliminaries; hence the actor is offered his choice between a life-career in the salt mines and a chance to woo by proxy the foreign princess and bring her back for the real prince to wed. He chooses the latter and naturally falls in love with the lady he is supposed to deceive. It looks like tears for the finish until...
Iodine in large doses is deadly, in small doses, beneficial. Milk contains a small percentage of iodine. When that percentage is lacking, human health sometimes suffers as a consequence. There are regions of the country in which the absence of iodine in salt, soil, water and milk explains the prevalence there of goitre. The country about Lake Michigan is one of these areas...
Last week the opening of the Newark Municipal airport, the purchase by the National Air Transport Inc. of eight new Curtiss Falcon biplanes, the installation by the government of a lighted airway between Salt Lake City and San Francisco made possible in the near future a coast to coast 24-hour air mail service. Last week also saw the inauguration of a direct international airmail line, linking New York, Montreal and Mexico City...