Word: scarcer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough to detect faults in the crew's performance, aggressive enough to correct them, good-natured enough not to mind an occasional ducking for their pains. Until crew-conscious alumni start subsidizing midgets, cox-swains who fill these requirements but still weigh less than 120 Ib. will be scarcer than good halfbacks. Last week in England, crew coaches at Oxford, which hopes on March 24 to win the Boat Race against Cambridge for the first time in 14 years, were paradoxically perplexed by a coxswain who filled the requirements of his job too well. He was Hart Massey, second...
...cause, he declared, was derangement of the adrenal glands. Those glands, situated one above each kidney, secrete two hormones-adrenalin in the cores, cortin in the hulls. One of adrenalin's effects is to draw sugar into the blood (see col. 3). The effects of cortin, a scarcer substance, are less well known. Among such effects is control of the amount of salt and water in the blood. Scarcity of cortin in the system increases the permeability of the walls of blood vessels and capillaries, permits a leakage of salty fluid from the blood...
...carry-over to make up this year's crop shortage. Where a family ate ten white potatoes at a meal last winter, they will probably have to get along with nine this year. But they can make up on tomatoes, which are more plentiful than usual. Milk will be scarcer and citizens will have to get along with 16 lb. of butter on their yearly bread instead of the 18 lb. to which they are accustomed. Meat will prove the major food problem, not everywhere at once but in spots gradually. At first there will appear to be an abundance...
...interested in another gland, the adrenal. When a derangement cuts off its flow of hormone, its possessor turns yellow, grows weak, wastes away. Called Addison's disease, this rare ailment was ordinarily fatal until physicians learned to supply the needed hormone from animal sources. But obtainable hormone is scarcer than the disease, and many a victim has died for lack of it. Last week Dr. Kendall reported that Mayo Clinic has isolated the hormone in pure crystalline form, analyzed its chemical composition. With this knowledge chemists may be able to manufacture enough of the substance for every sufferer...
...pupils. Said he: "It is no longer as pleasant or easy to live in Cambridge as in many other university communities." A placid suburb 25 years ago, Cambridge is now a bustling city of 125,000, circling the university in a tight-clenched grip. Pleasant residences have steadily grown scarcer, more expensive...