Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least 2,500 years, man has tried to control the sex of his offspring. In 1932, Dr. Felix Unterberger of Konigsberg, Germany pointed out that semen is normally slightly alkaline, and the female vaginal tract acid. In some marriages, he said, an unusually alkaline semen produces a preponderance of boys, a strongly acid vaginal tract a majority of girls. Sex of children should be controlled, then, by adjusting the acid balance of the vagina. After some animal experiments, Dr. Unterberger tried the method on humans, claimed to have "determined" the birth of 74 boys. His method: mild vaginal douches...
...that fiction has been brought together to make this book. A warning, at this point: the New Yorker's prose style, a unique melancholy compounded out of many samples over a period of not quite sixteen years, is not very much in evidence in this collection. The witty, nostalgic, acid manner of the "Talk of the Town" hovers vaguely behind a few of the stories, but only a few. And there are no more than three stories that can be called funny...
Theirs was a mission of revenge. From the trench they had removed the bodies of Iron Guard Founder Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and 13 other Guardists, executed on the same spot just three days less than two years before. His body eaten by acid, Codreanu was identified by the three crosses he had worn around his neck, a wedding ring and a small ikon...
...Potato jackets, they firmly believe, are rich in anti-scurvy Vitamin C, while the potato's inside is little more than starch and water. Last month the British Medical Journal laughed at this assertion, referred to some new research of a food chemist, Mamie Olliver. The ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) content of potatoes, she found, is more than skin deep. In fact, said the Journal, the amount of vitamin "increases from without inwards. This admirable vegetable-. . . by no means to be neglected for its contribution of iron and aneurin [ Vitamin B1 ] -may have a rough exterior, but clearly conceals...
...heal with rest and special diets must be dealt with by surgeons. As for surgery, he went on, most experts believe it does little good merely to snip out the ulcer and patch up the stomach or intestine. For the incorrigible stomach keeps on brewing its corrosive acid. Most authorities hold that the best procedure is to cut out "three-fourths to four-fifths of the stomach." Since the stomach is primarily a churn and a reservoir for big meals, it is possible to get along without it. Of course, said Dr. Abell, mortality rates for removal of most...