Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since diabetics are unable to burn up the sugar they consume, it looked as though the islands in a normal pancreas secreted some substance which acted like a spark plug. What was the spark plug? That same night, Banting read in a medical journal that if you tie off a pancreas duct, the digestive juice cells shrivel up, die. That gave him the great idea-how to get the digestive juices out of the way, to get at the spark-plug chemical. He wrote three sentences in a notebook: "Tie off pancreatic duct of dogs. Wait six to eight weeks...
Professor Potter is one of those rare teachers who are able to ignite the intellectual spark of the ordinary student. Since he first entered the service of the University, be has shown especial interest in the possibilities of the tutorial system, the most distinctive and potentially significant branch of Harvard education. He has been willing to experiment with the system in an effort to raise the standards of education in the University. His outstanding achievement is the cross area conference, in which students of dissociated areas meet with a joint tutor to discuss a problem common to all their fields...
...member of the Central Communist Committee. On the closing day of the Conference last week even that post was taken away from him. Ousted with three other Committee members for "inability to discharge obligations," Comrade Litvinoff, an old revolutionary who had worked with Lenin on the early Communist Iskra (Spark), who once played the fence for money stolen in a train robbery by Comrade Stalin, who was the only moderate to push his way to the top through the ranks of rabid 100 percenters...
...Karpovich brand of magic does not contain the usual ingerdients of fire and brimstone. His eyes have none of the intense spark that one expects to radiate from "the mighty and colorful"; he indulges in no cock-eyed hobbies, has nothing of the Norman Bel Geddes. He is a quiet little man with kindly eyes, a soft-spoken accent, and a well-broken-in pipe. He used to smoke two to three packs of cigarettes a day, using a holder and fishing out the minute butts with his wife's hair pin, but he turned to the pipe because...
...light of the flaming Fuhrer, Lyford protested with all his strength against his wardens. Decoated and exhausted, the prisoner writhed on the spark-strewn pavement, striving to get loose and settle the score with the suicide squad...