Word: acidities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief cause of gout is imperfect elimination of uric acid, and attacks may be caused by heavy consumption of rich food, malt liquors, or by mental shock. Although 50% of gout is hereditary, overindulgence usually aggravates the underlying weakness. Rare in the whiskey-drinking U. S., gout is most common in aley Britain and beery Germany...
...Dartmouth, probably even the dumbest Betty Co-ed in the stands realized that the Crimson team hadn't even started to roll. The sad fact was that it had not made one first down. As a Monday morning answer for the Dartmouth rout, Boston sports writers launched an acid personal attack on the leaders of the H.A.A., Harlow and Bingham especially. In fact, a typical mid-season bout of asparagus-throwing has followed Saturday's game. Some carping alumni are even criticizing the spirit of the players, and yelling for Harlow to turn in his sweatshirt...
Whatever effect the U. S. move might have on world affairs, and however Joe Stalin replied, general agreement was that it was popular in the U. S. At the National Press Club in Washington, where generally foregather the most cynical, disgusted, acid-eyed newsmen on earth, a routine luncheon turned into an emotional spree: gathering to hear about news broadcasting in Europe, reporters spied Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procopé in the audience, cheered him to the rafters...
...kitchen-simple experiment, they butchered a batch of fresh Kentucky Wonder string beans, dribbled the hormone-rich juice into the pod-linings of other wounded beans. In a few hours, large clumps of healthy new cells piled up. After painstaking analysis, they isolated a complicated compound containing oxalic acid, a common plant substance...
Last week the California scientists announced artificial production of the hormone. When tested on bruised potato tubers, "traumatic acid" (from the Greek trauma meaning wound) "was found to be identical with the natural product...