Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heroine of this romance by Myron C. Fagan, in which a wife who has allowed herself the pleasure of wearing sturdy woolen stockings, comfortable sweaters and helpful horn-rimmed glasses, learns of an old necessity and reverts to fragile silk hose, mascara, rouge, lipstick, perfume, corsets and eye-strain for her husband's sake. This theme is presented with a truly incredible number of historic wheezes and situations...
...freedom with nothing in prospect but a bacchanalian wassail or a scant jaunt to the hearth of his childhood. Both of these have their disadvantages. The first, purely aside from constitutional controversy, is bound to grow tiresome as a steady diet, and the latter very likely proves an unwonted strain on the purse-strings...
...which two living factors are concerned, the bacillus of tuberculosis and the body cells called monocytes. The bacillus lives parasitically within the monocyte. Each has its individual living chemistry. Together they have a third metabolism which causes the tubercles of tuberculosis to grow. This third chemistry varies with the strain of the bacillus and its animal host (man, cow, fowl, fish). But always typical compounds result-of fats with sugars, albumins with sugars. The fats and albumins in all types uf tuberculosis are very much alike. But the sugars differ greatly. Hence the sugars are suspected of bearing a close...