Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urine diminishes markedly toward the end of the monthly cycle-unless pregnancy intervenes. By finding an easy way to test for pregnandiol, Dr. Henry S. Guterman of Chicago has found what is by all odds the fastest test for pregnancy urine yet discovered. He merely adds sulfuric acid to a urine extract and waits about three hours to see if it turns orange color-indicative of pregnancy. Dr. Guterman reported his method in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology Supplement. He claims that his test is as accurate as the well-known one-to two-day Friedman (rabbit) test...
Last week the Gopher Ordnance Works was in rush-rush production, making nitric acid for much-needed gunpowder...
Washington's Latin American circles were abuzz with an acid anecdote last week. A Peruvian surgeon and a Venezuelan architect (so the story ran) were dining with two men from the U.S. State Department. They discussed whose profession was the oldest. "Mine," said the surgeon, "God created Eve out of Adam's rib . . . by a surgical operation." "Mine," said the architect, "God first created the world out of chaos . . . the work of an architect." The two State Department men kept mum. "And what do you say?" the Latin Americans finally asked. Said one of the State Department...
...barrels of sauerkraut they requisitioned at Chambersburg and the cherries that were ripening everywhere. They marched 15 to 20 miles a day without straggling, whooping and yelling as they went. The horses, well fed at last, carried their heads higher and pulled with a firmer step. There was "acid in the air" and mean looks from the townspeople, but the jaunty invaders laughed them off. At York, General "Extra Billy" Smith changed the bands' tune from Dixie to Yankee Doodle, and even won smiles and cheers from the citizens when he made them a comical speech: the weather...
Newspaper cartoonists dipped their pens in what they hoped was acid. Manhattan's PM, of all the New Deal admirers, showed the greatest skill at caricaturing Tom Dewey; and the Chicago Tribune, day by day, pictured Franklin Roosevelt with an older, tireder, more quarrelsome face...