Word: strays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorial last week, ". . . in private conversation [of doctors] the opinion [is] expressed that radiation seems to facilitate metastasis, and that patients who have been rayed have strange and unusual metastases which do not occur with other forms of treatment." His idea is that primary cancers usually throw off stray cells, which drift to distant parts of the body. Radiation probably has nothing to do with the drift. If the patient lived long enough the stray cancer cells would probably develop into secondary cancers. But the primary cancer ordinarily kills the victim before the secondary cancers have time to become annoying...
Both duck-shooters and connoisseurs of etchings would like Sportsman-Artist Roland Clark's Stray Shots (Derrydale Press: $25; de luxe edition, $75), containing 13 original dry-points by the author (with frontispiece signed) and some reminiscences of shooting in the days when there was a spring season, no bag limit...
...cage to pose for a news-camera, wandered over to the fish exhibition and was diving for one of the lion-headed goldfish when interrupted by a goldfish gillie. One of Exhibitor Donald S. Crowe's bear cubs became ill from an ice cream cone, recovered. A stray dog was nipped by a Pekingese. A race between two catfish-like creatures turned out badly when one of the creatures refused...
Delegates will pay $2 apiece to attend a banquet in Eliot House and hear a speech on "Making Both Ends Meet Under the Present Conditions." Meanwhile, outdoors, the great searchlights on Harvard's four house-towers will light the sky. Bright prismatic beams will cheer the unemployed and guide stray geese going South...
...were examined by the Harvard astronomers during the past six months, but the Oak Ridge station has proved to be superior to any other in Eastern Massachusetts. The land comprises more than thirty acres of woodland, the woods being a desideratum in providing a protection against wind, dust, and stray light from neighboring villages, farmhouses, and highways. It was given to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Fuller of Belmont...