Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently oblivious to the twin acid-test games with Quonset and Boston University this week, Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity quintet coasted to its sixth straight victory Saturday evening when it smothered Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 67 to 44, in the losers...
...most toothache victims know, cavities are generally caused by acid which forms in the mouth from fermenting food particles. Dentists can partly neutralize or slow down formation of this acid with several safe chemicals. The problem has not been what to give busy patients-but how to give...
Northwestern University Dental School's Dr. Leonard S. Fosdick & co-workers may have found an answer. Reporting in the Journal of Dental Research, the experimenters released some long-awaited data on acid-decreasing synthetic vitamin K (2-methyl-1, 4-napthoquinone). They hit on the idea of spreading it on chewing gum. For the experiment, 55 Northwestern students faithfully chomped vitamin K-coated gum for ten minutes after each meal. Another 45 chewed untreated gum. A third group chewed nothing...
Shirt-Consumer. In Cambridge, Mass., a Harvard professor, to pay off a bet, ate his shirt after dissolving it in acid, neutralizing the acid, filtering out the precipitate, spreading it on bread...
Like Writers Fielding and Swift of their day, Engravers Hogarth, Rowlandson and Gillray masked their acid realism with ribaldry, spared little that was worth debunking. Nymphs were turned into hoydens, generals into cannibalistic monsters, politicians into poisonous toadstools. The plump Duke of Norfolk was pictured lying on a table like an apple dumpling, Tom Paine was made to look as thin and mean as a sharp knife, the Royal Georges were shown with the complacently stupid expressions of goldfish, and Lord Nelson's beautiful mistress, Lady Hamilton, was portrayed as a coarse, fat, dowdy Dido (see cut), mourning among...