Word: thorned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first selection presented yesterday was from George Bernard Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion." Sherman C. Hawkins '51 took the title part of a kind-hearted Christian of Roman times who removes a thorn from the foot of a lion. Phyllis Courtney of Boston University played his wife, and Richard B. England '53, was the lion...
...those of Philadelphia or Baltimore. Hundreds of old-fashioned clapboard houses stand uneasily in the sun along its older residential streets. But the visitor in 1949 is apt to stare at them less in recognition than in disbelief, like a wanderer pushing through the vine-hung ruins of Angkor-Thorn...
...third Han Chinese, one-third Moslem Chinese, and the remainder Tibetans, Turkis, Mongolians, Kazaks). Ma's elevation put the Northwest on its own. His land was a poor holding in comparison with the lost coastal regions and lush river valleys, but, until conquered, it would be a thorn in the flesh of Communist China...
Pointing out that in recent years there has been increasing evidence that the adrenal cortical hormones exert marked influence on many metabolic processes, Dr. Thorn said that this group had attempted to determine the effects on rheumatoid arthritis of various measures designed to stimulate the pituitary-adrenal system...
...After Hench and Kendall's discoveries at the Mayo Clinic that Compound E was effective in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, studies were made of the prolonged effect of ACTH on rheumatoid arthritis patients," Dr. Thorn said...