Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Keynote of the meeting was sounded by Dr. Conrad Elvehjem of Wisconsin (originator of nicotinic-acid treatment for pellagra), who said: "Many of the deficiency diseases . . . are multiple deficiencies...
...most interesting admonitions which these acid pen-wielders have addressed to Harvard's neophytes concerns the teachers whom they are meeting in these first few days. Beware of these men, says the Progressive, in sobering tones. You may believe at first that they are guiding you along the true path of knowledge. But unless you are very careful, you will realize only too late that they have cleverly contrived, out of sheer black malice, to lead you astray: Beware. For a Freshman who has just got back his first English A theme, covered with comments more pungent than insidious...
...However, several biochemists last week reported that prematurely grey hair can be warded off and even darkened again by para-amino-benzoic acid, a member of the vitamin B complex...
...their hours were spent in intensive business. Churchill, in spite of his lisp (which he suppresses when he makes a speech), is a superb story teller, with an irony that eats like slow acid. The President, utterly fluent, is an engaging conversationalist. Two such men do not get quickly to the subject of their business...
...approval of the broadcast, the public split neatly in three. Group One contended Wodehouse was an artist who shouldn't be held responsible; Group Two said Wodehouse was wrong indeed, but that attacks like Connor's were in execrable taste; Group Three was for more all-out acid-throwing instead of BBC's usual drawing-room argument...