Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...product is even more convenient. Heretofore it has been dangerous to inject liver extracts directly into the blood stream. The extracts behaved like protein poisons. By fiddling with the liver juices after a method which has been patented, Professors Sturgis & Isaacs developed an innocuous fluid. Once introduced into a vein it whips the blood into a fury of red cell reproduction. The fury lasts for four to six weeks, when another intravenous injection becomes necessary. That is more pleasant, anemics find, than swallowing hog stomachs once a day or eating beef liver at every meal...
...jungle below, gradually comes to the conclusion the place is civilized. He loses his family. is annexed by a masterful flapper who makes him into a popular lecturer and a U. S. enthusiast. When he finds his family again, they are running a speakeasy. The story ends in Morleyesque vein with the Robinsons happily settled on Long Island, operating a League of Nations filling station...
...lighter vein is Frederick Watson's Hunting Pie (Derrydale Press: $7.50). enthusiastically foreworded by Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., illustrated by Paul Brown...
...communication appeared in the Weekly and in newspapers throughout the land, Professor Henderson spoke to the Chicago meeting in much the same vein. Vast building programs, said he, result in underpaid professors. At one university, "by 1945 I suppose it will be necessary to stop paying professors' salaries altogether, so that the wages of the president, the janitors, window washers and scrubbers can be met." Professor Henderson's figures as to the proportion of university income paid to professors; at Johns Hopkins, 65 per cent; University of Chicago, 52 per cent; Princeton, 42 per cent ("pretty fair"); at Yale...
...dirty past, took no pains to paint a pretty picture. With a World's Fair in the offing, with a concerted effort on the part of its more worthy citizenry to put raw beefsteak on Chicago's black eye, Author Smith has now changed his vein. In Chicago: A Portrait Mr. Smith, writing alone, turns to glorification...