Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cotton planter, Mr. Blackshear became Rector of St. Matthew's Protestant Episcopal Church in Brooklyn last June. The congregation knew he had been trained at the Virginia Theological Seminary and had done graduate work at Oxford and Harvard. They knew he was a captain in the War, cited for bravery. They knew he was 36 years old. What they did not realize was that like any true southerner Mr. Blackshear believes Negro and white civilization can at the best be parallel, never equal. This lesson he taught them dramatically at a Sunday service...
...Mexico things are different. Painters there are workmen; they hire out by the day, work with masons (some of them have been masons), consider themselves only as craftsmen. They live natural lives as normal men, do not exude individuality, tea and conversation, are not "salon clowns...
...York Times to issue a categorical and sharp denial of these absurd and irresponsible stories. . . . I not only authorize, I implore you to protest energetically in my name against the ridiculous distortions of my scientific work by popular journalism, which represent me as an inventor of a specific against idiocy."-Dr. Eugen Steinach, to the New York Times Vienna correspondent last week...
Previous misinterpretation was on his reactivation work. Before Serge Voronoff of Paris developed a sex gland transplantation technique. Dr. Steinach had worked in that field. It led him to ligating the vas deferens in men and injecting female sex hormones into women, procedures which reactivated their entire systems. Journalists incorrectly called this rejuvenation...
Last week report of his most recent work, on brain extracts, reached the general public by journalistic interpretation of a weighty article in last month's issue of Medizinische Klinik (Berlin). He de scribed very technically how he crushed the brains of tree frogs and from the juice se cured an extract which he called centronervin. That extract, when injected into the lymph systems and thence into the blood stream of live frogs stimulated them remarkably. It toned up their muscles, made them stronger, especially it seemed to speed up their reactions. Treated frogs saw flies more quickly than normal...