Word: working
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Students grumbled because they believed Dr. Conant was bent on getting crack research men instead of crack teachers, because he hired big-name scholars at fancy salaries while he let brilliant young instructors of undergraduates go. Harvardmen began to think that Chemist Conant was more adept at test-tube work than at human equations...
Although sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine work wonders in the treatment of pneumonia, they sometimes bring on a train of after-effects both irritating and dangerous, including vomiting, violent headaches, acute anemia. Last week Dr. Mark McDonough Bracken of Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute reported another "miracle drug" for treatment of pneumonia, cheaper than and just as effective as sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine, but much safer. No kin to the older drugs, tongue-tripping hydroxy-ethylapocupreine is derived from quinine, is usually swallowed in gelatin capsules. Of 500 pneumonia patients treated at Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital, said Chief Physician William Watt Graham...
Within a year, Dr. Putnam hopes to use the magnificent resources of the Institute for large scale clinical work in 1) multiple sclerosis, a mysterious nerve-crippling disease, probably twice as prevalent as infantile paralysis; 2) paralysis agitans, a lingering, incurable shaking palsy; 3) epilepsy (known to modernists as "convulsions"). Meanwhile, within the cheerful green walls of the Institute, turbanned patients continue to wheel their chairs through sunny wards, as 100 experimenters work on problems such as mirror-writing, abnormalities of the senses, hydrocephalus (water-on-the-brain), brain physiology and anatomy...
...nails on him, but she held her fingers up to the judge, said, "You can see I haven't got the kind of nails which scratch." To the officer's accusation that she cursed him, she replied: "I'm sorry about the language but I work with pilots and say 'damn' like an adjective...
...century of schism. Half of Général Boegner's 1,000 pastors have been mobilized, and 75 installed as chaplains. For French Protestantism, mobilization posed a problem: how to keep its churches running. M. Boegner solved it by recalling aged ministers from retirement, giving pulpit work to laymen and even to "some young ladies who have made profound studies in theology...