Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When bacteria are killed by carbolic acid or iodine, they stay dead; their tissues are destroyed by corrosive chemical action. But some modern soaps, though so bland that they are used for softening luxury fabrics, are a hundred times more toxic to bacteria than is carbolic acid...
India has become the acid test of our fitness to survive. To fail here will be to fail everywhere. To succeed here will be to prove the truth of the President's words: #We of the United Nations have the power and the men and the will at last to assure man's heritage." FREDERICK L. SCHUMAN...
Jaundice can be simulated by taking large doses of picric acid, but the yellowness thus produced is not quite that of true jaundice, and the picric acid can be detected in the malingerer's urine...
...Builder has given various parts of his handiwork such symbolic names as Vale of Memory, Sunrise Slope, Slumberland, Resthaven, Whispering Pines, Babyland. The result is sensational and Forest Lawn (disguised as "Beverly Pantheon") has achieved the minor immortality of an acid portrait by Aldous Huxley in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan...
...Other Agricultural Department chemists revealed new wartime medicinal uses for pectin, the chemical in apples which makes jelly jell. Working on Navy orders the chemists discovered: 1) pectin paste and tannic acid is a natural for battle burns; 2) pectin is a good stand-in for Jap-controlled agar-agar, intestinal lubricant...