Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against the amendment. Floor Leader Barkley found so few that it seemed advisable to have Louisiana's Ellender launch a miniature filibuster to prevent a roll call. Meanwhile, Floor Leader Barkley was so busy bargaining on the floor that Mr. Borah was moved to another and more pertinently acid comment on the proceedings. Said he: "Certain things are being promised on and off the floor that amount to reorganization of the Government before the bill is passed...
...Fiume, which he held for four months. Supposedly a great & good friend of Benito Mussolini, who made him Prince of Montenevoso and President of the Royal Academy, bald, brooding d'Annunzio lived as a virtual prisoner, year ago melodramatically announced that he planned to dissolve himself in acid...
...your pen doesn't work, I have a supply of living fountain points that have a faculty of injecting formic acid which has a soothing property. I offer you 8,000,000 ants to distribute in troublemaking pants...
...method is called parthenocarpy (Greek parthenos, virgin; carpos, fruit). The chemical is indoleacetic acid, or heteroauxin, a famed plant hormone which has been used to stimulate root-sprouting and growth (TIME, Oct.11). Heteroauxin can be made synthetically at a cost of about $3 per ounce. One ounce in very dilute solution is enough to treat hundreds of plants. At the Department of Agriculture's experiment station in Beltsville, Md., Frank Easter Gardner and Ezra Jacob Kraus of the University of Chicago sprayed holly blooms with heteroauxin, obtained berries. These parthenocarpic fruits contained no trace of embryo, but the plant...
Describing the research work of the Harvard Dental School in the past year, Dean Miner reported that "no better example of the absolute inseparability of dental problems from medicine and biology can be found than in the studies of partial deficiencies of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) pursued by a group of workers...