Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-haired, stiff-necked Captain Donald F. Smith was amazed. The contest, he declared, had "degenerated into a farce." The committee meekly called it off. Explained a disgruntled committeeman: "The good captain didn't want to be seen walking down the aisle with a sweep woman on his arm." Mrs. Clauson sadly announced that she would not attend the ball at all. Promptly, some 800 other workers turned in their tickets. Said one: "If this contest is for the lieutenants' girl friends, then let the lieutenants go to the ball...
...ACTH. The results were dramatic but, like the results of earlier work, they were fleeting. Fifteen patients, some unable to walk, showed great improvement soon after injections of large doses of Compound E (as much as 100 milligrams a day). The first patient was a woman who was barely able to get out of bed. By the third day she was walking with only a slight limp; a week later, pain and muscular stiffness had almost disappeared. But improvement ended when the drug was stopped. After varying periods without the drug, the patients were back where they started. Two other...
Stronger Drug. A new drug for such allergies as hay fever, hives and asthma was announced by a six-woman, two-man team headed by Dr. Richard Tislow of Schering Corp.'s laboratories in Bloomfield, NJ. The drug is called Chlor-Trimeton. In experiments on animals it proved to be 50 times as strong as some drugs now used to combat histamine (the substance thought to be released in the body as part of allergic reactions). But its strength did not cause a corresponding increase in unpleasant effects, and it lasted much longer. Chlor-Trimeton is now being tried...
...kind at the College, the Funsters' extravaganza offers prizes ranging up to champagne for the best male, best female, best couple, and best group. If past tradition is followed--and there seems little reason that it won't--a special prize will go to the least-dressed woman...
...woman expressed concern about student drinking orgies in the union. "They come in here for breakfast," she said, "drink four glasses of milk, six of juice, and then mix in a couple of cups of coffee...