Search Details

Word: acidity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...flotation process, ores are first ground to powder and mixed with a frother. This is an oil or an acid which attaches itself to some powder particles but not to others. Then the ores are dumped into water and stirred (usually by compressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Strategic Metal No. 1 | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...generations of History 1 students, Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney professor of History and Housemaster of Eliot House, last night in the Union advised all Freshmen that "their first duty in this period of national emergency is to keep themselves physically, morally, spiritually and socially fit for the acid test that is to come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FRISKY" ADVISES FITNESS IN BODY, SPIRIT TO FACE WAR | 10/8/1941 | See Source »

...cevitamic acid, is abundant in citrus fruits, tomatoes, green vegetables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamin Powwow | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...complex, for practical purposes, is really a group of eight different chemicals. They are all found in liver and brewer's yeast; some of them also occur in whole grains. Their chemical names: thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), pyridoxine (B6), inositol, pantothenic acid, nicotinic acid, biotin and folic acid (first described last week by Dr. Roger John Williams of Texas). To keep up B requirements, Dr. Tom Spies of Birmingham, Ala. suggested a daily sandwich of yeast and peanut butter on peeled wheat bread (made from grain with only the thin outer tissue removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamin Powwow | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Para-aminobenzoic acid reputedly turns grey hair dark again-but it raises blood pressure and, if sulfa drugs are given, it combats their curative powers. Another vitamin, pyridoxine, turns hair grey-but it is essential for red blood cells and digestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamin Powwow | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

Previous | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | Next