Word: acidity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...songs, written by J. Stanley Sheppard and Robert A. Gibson, underwent the acid test when several persons were heard whistling them during intermission. "The Mood to be Wooed" and "What Did You Do, Love" are potential Hit Parade material...
Alkalizers. "The blood of a healthy person is no more in need of 'alkalizing' . . . than the eyes need an eyewash to keep them moist; with the common cold or grippe and . . . constipation, there is no accumulation of acid. . . . Fatigue, a 'dark brown' taste, a foggy feeling, jitters or headache are not to the slightest extent caused by 'acids in the blood...
...under way, Tennessee Eastman began to bud like a culture of yeast. The spread of home movies and the problem of storing X-rays in hospitals demanded a non-inflammable film. Cellulose nitrate was highly inflammable. Cellulose acetate was not. Made by treating cellulose (purified cotton linters) with acetic acid and acetic anhydride, cellulose acetate was costly because the method of extracting the two acids from the wood was crude. But Eastman's chemists found a better way, and in 1930 Tennessee Eastman's first cellulose acetate unit began turning out the raw material for "safety film." That...
slums, twisting, writhing blocks of slums. garbage in the streets. acid yellow soap. floors, cockroaches. filth... arms ache. knees sting "Seen what we got to scrub...
Last November acid-tongued Columnist Westbrook Pegler dug up evidence in Chicago that in 1922 William Bioff had been convicted of pandering, sentenced to six months in jail, released after serving just eight days (TIME, Aug. 21, Dec. 4). This was news because Bioff is western representative and reputed boss of the potent International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes (Stagehands' Union...