Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-five undergraduates, chiefly Freshmen, trained for middle distance running under the direction of Coach Bill Neufeld throughout the college year. Every two weeks they ran on a tread mill in the Laboratory to test their oxygen consumption, lactic acid content of the blood, and general endurance. Careful check was kept on basal metabolism during the experiment...
Viewed from its too many angles the new Cabinet shaped itself up as a time bomb which must eventually explode. Encased in their common desire for victory, there must nevertheless be some acid friction between Bevin, who was the brains of the General Strike, and men who helped break it; between others who had learned not to trust each other's judgment in the past and had no particular assurance that in a pinch they could trust each other's judgment...
Make way for the Michigan Wolverines and the fatal afternoon of October 12, a real judgment day for 1940 Harvard football Tom Harmon, undoubtedly one of the three or four greatest runnings backs of all time, will provide the acid test. Cracking over a guard, slinging a touchdown pass, or skirting a distant flank are all in the day's work for this miracle man wearing the Maize and Blue. And he has the pleasing faculty of picking up anywhere from seven to 28 points during a Saturday matinee...
Next morning General Nishihara deferred "for the time being" the landing of troops at Haiphong, but the drive from the China border was carried to the enemy with energy. Tokyo newspapers hailed the "peaceful penetration." French authorities put aside the honey and brought on the acid: "Anyone coming across the border in the middle of the night in combat formation and using arms is hardly friendly...
...Cathedral, which sits unsteadily on foundations of wet sand. The delayed action of such bombs as this and the first one which damaged Buckingham Palace was regulated not by a timing mechanism, which would not survive the bomb's fall, but by the slow action of acid eating through a metal plate. After four days the St. Paul's bomb was finally removed by a "suicide squad" and exploded in a marsh outside the city. But the windows of St. Mary-le-Bow near by, commemorating John Milton with the expulsion scene from Paradise Lost, were shattered...