Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medulla was the main cause of Addison's disease. But the Swingle-Pfiffner hormone, extracted from the suprarenal cortex of cattle, seems to prove the cortex much more important than the medulla. If the medulla decays, other parts of the sympathetic system apparently assume its duties sufficiently to sustain life. If the cortex goes, only hope, now demonstrated, is the Swingle-Pfiffner hormone...
...last year as an attempt to bring back the prestige Harvard lost when George Pierce Baker and his 47 Workshop departed for New Haven. Its connection with the University was only semi-official, and those few pioneers in the venture had not much but hopes for the future to sustain them. Now with a building which is fully satisfactory for experimental productions and with the policies of its administration somewhat crystallized the school is ready for the expansion which is planned for after mid-years. The best advertisement for it are the recommendations of the members who have already...
Board. In Cincinnati, General Secretary Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals said: "I believe a [national] referendum would reveal [that] an astounding majority of the American people would sustain the Amendment. . . ." He also announced: "Any one who thinks we would not oppose President Hoover if he reverses his Prohibition stand, just as quickly as we opposed Mr. Smith in 1928, is badly mistaken...
Since Professor Yandell Henderson of Yale, by his studies on the biochemistry of respiration and the physiology of circulation, indicated the way, doctors have been giving their failing pneumonia patients extra oxygen to breathe. Enough oxygen then can get through the plugged air spaces at each gasp to sustain the dying patient for two, three minutes. Consequently he need not strain to breathe at the normal rate (16 to 20 times a minute...
...privilege of using the athletic equipment. Football games are the chief source of revenue for the H. A. A. and the proceeds are used to help support other forms of athletics. The stadium receipts, however are not used for the entire upkeep of other sports but merely sustain the heaviest losses incurred by crew and other non-paying activities...