Word: slaving
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...cousins were not glad to see Jan. There was scarcely enough food to go around. The Nazis seized him, sent him as a slave laborer to an Austrian farm near the Italian border. There news reached him that his wife & child had been sent to a labor camp in Siberia (actually they had gone to Pinega Camp, in the frozen forests near Archangel...
...acts as a master control regulating the flow of a series of other vital substances in the body. ACTH got its full name from the group it controls: the hormones of the cortex (outer casing) of the adrenals (the glands which bestride the kidneys). No less than 28 such slave hormones, including cortisone (see below), have been found in the adrenals. When their flow is stimulated, there may be harmful side effects...
...slave hormones whose flow can be speeded by ACTH is cortisone, formerly known as Compound E (TIME, June 13). Like its master, cortisone almost always relieves the symptoms of crippling rheumatoid arthritis in a few injections, but, again like its master, it must be used continuously or the condition recurs...
Many of the finest things that archeologists dig up were once junk thrown away by the owners. Recently unearthed was a beautiful Greek relief of an Ethiopian slave and a horse saddled with a panther skin (see cut). Carved about 125 B.C., it would probably have been destroyed long ago by weathering if it had stayed in its original place. But when Greek civilization degenerated into barbarism, the two marble slabs were used as secondhand building stones to line a rough, crude tomb in the suburbs of Athens. This insult to the carving saved it. When Greek archeologists dug them...
Marguerite Steen's 1941 best selling nov el, The Sun Is My Undoing, was all about the hot-blooded Flood family of Bristol and how they made their 18th Century fortunes slave-trading on the sultry Gold Coast. Twilight takes over where Sun set, and sweeps the swelling Floods up to the brink of the 20th Century - leaving no doubt that at least one more huge tome is going to have to be purred over by Author Steen before the moonlight dissolves...