Word: acidizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dismayed but not losing his presence of mind. Dr. von Grosse laboriously located the crumbs by microscopic search, popped them into a tube of hydrofluoric acid where they disappeared beyond even microscopic view. From the acid. Dr. von Grosse said last week, he hopes eventually to extract the protoactinium in a single lump which may once more be seen under a magnifying glass...
...first cousin miles removed from Mrs. Roosevelt in temperament, ideas and political attachments is Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Roosevelt I, relict of the late Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth. This week that acid-tongued, political kibitzer, who generally gets credit for most wisecracks uttered in Washington, was put forward by McNaught Syndicate as successor to its late great Will Rogers. Appearing in some 100 newspapers, Alice Longworth's brief daily comment is served hot by telegraph to most subscribers. First sample...
...last week the gap between living and nonliving things was so narrow as to be almost nonexistent. A century ago the demarcation between organic and inorganic matter was sharp. It grew hazy when chemists began to make com pounds artificially. They found that hydrocyanic acid, simply standing in water, gives rise to urea and other substances found in living tissues. Now that thousands of organic compounds have been synthesized, it is chemical custom to call "organic" any compound, however formed, that contains carbon, since carbon is a notable component of plants and animals. Lately Rockefeller Institute researchers have isolated...
...much success did Albert B. Sabin, Peter Kosciusko Olitsky & Harold R. Cox of the Rockefeller Institute have from spraying weak solutions of tannic acid or alum into the nostrils of monkeys that they boldly urged "a trial in man of these chemicals in the prevention of poliomyelitis during epidemics...
...Webster got off some of their finest flights of eloquence at its bar. Nowadays, the nine hard-pressed old men who sit on the Supreme bench have no time to listen to oratory, demand facts. Last week Forney Johnston, 56. a New Deal-hating Birmingham attorney, known for his acid courtroom flings, got a lesson which was enough to send every prospective Supreme Court pleader in the land skittering in search of a blue pencil...