Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dr. Hopkins followed up Dr. Eijkman's early work on "pure" diets and vitamins. But more importantly he showed paths for others to follow. In 1913 Cambridge University made him its first professor of biochemistry. Here he made his fundamental contribution to science: by isolating from living cells the...
Quail Stuffers. To fatten quail for market, Italian and Polish gaveurs (bird stuffers) work in Paris market-hall cellars, chewing up grain and fruit into a pap which they let the quail eat from their mouths. The pecking quail abrade the gaveurs' lips, noses, chins. The peckmarks become infected...
Chinese Dynamite. Instituters are fond of the words "dare" and "dynamite." They boast that at their round tables the unofficial delegates rush in where statesmen dare not, grapple with questions too dynamitey for diplomacy. Chinese Chief Delegate David Z. T. Yui took the Instituters at their word last week. At...
Hectic midnight was the hour of betrayal, if such it was. Earlier in the evening M. Daladier had set out to tell President Gaston Doumergue of his inability to form a cabinet of the "left." The Socialist party had just refused their support, and without them he considered the game...
Next morning M. Briand said that the Havas Agency had misunderstood him, added that of course his telephone would have been answered if it had rung. In a bristling statement from which it appeared that somebody was lying, he declared: "To my surprise I learned in the evening that Daladier...