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Hitchings

[ hich-ingz ]

noun

  1. George Herbert, 1905–98, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize 1988.


Hitchings

/ hĭchĭngz /

  1. American pharmacologist who with his colleague Gertrude Elion developed drugs to treat leukemia and malaria, gout, herpes, and urinary and respiratory tract infections. He and Elion shared with Sir James Black the 1988 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.


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Jessie Hitchings is devoted to Ben, but she is only a girl like Ariadne and me.

For some reason or other she saw that Mr. Hitchings looked greatly distressed.

Robert,” the Sheik paused because he was very sure of his grounds, “Hitchings.

It was mean, however, she thought of Mr. Hitchings not to have shown it to her.

Will you—O, will you, my dear Mr. Hitchings, do a moving picture for me?

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