Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Havana, with the attractions of Sloppy Joe's cuba libres and bacardis, and with a dance thrown for the Unit at the Biltmore Yacht Club, was the most popular stop on route. Every man had guest privileges at the Havana clubs, through special dispensation of the U. S. Ambassador...
...experiment, a group of sixteen Freshmen showed marked improvement in reading skill and some advance in scholastic standing, after eight weeks of special training last fall. They increased their reading speed by 50 percent, gained in reading accuracy, and altered for the better their habits of eye movement...
...Juno Films). For the spectacular rise of the French cinema in the years before World War II, the men most responsible have been a handful of able directors. These directors usually did not develop special talent for the camera but made movies that attracted and used the seasoned acting personnel of the French theatre. For The End of a Day, a photographic plate recording with sharp sensitivity the emotional atmosphere of a home for retired actors, Director Julien Duvivier (Poil de Carotte, Un Cornet de Bal) recruited a cast that includes many a distinguished veteran of the Paris stage, headed...
...being in a position . . . [because of time and money] ... to continue the experiments," said Dr. Davidson, "I made a bold step, administering the filtrate to a human subject with carcinoma of the breast, who had previously been given a special high vitamin-content diet." To his delight, the cancer dried up, and in a year the woman was able to walk three or four miles every day. However, when she left her vitamin diet, the cancer soon returned and she died shortly afterward. Another patient, who suffered from cancerous growths on the side of his neck, was cured after...
Atoms of the same chemical element which have different weights are called isotopes. Isotopes are Chemist Urey's special ty. He won a Nobel Prize for discovering deuterium, the heavy isotope of hydrogen which makes "heavy water" (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934). Later, one of the Urey crews produced large quantities of heavy nitrogen (TIME, Sept. 20, 1937). Nitrogen is present in all proteins. Heavy nitrogen atoms can be distinguished from the common kind by mass spectrographic means, but in protein reactions they run along with their lighter fellows, and so serve as "tagged atoms" or chemical spies to show...