Word: acidizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some tubercle bacilli. Culturing them in a sterile glycerin broth, he had added some sterile litmus milk, put the flask in a cupboard at room temperature. The deadly, rod-shaped bacilli slowly disappeared, transmuted into round-shaped bacteria called cocci and diplococci. These bacteria, he explained, produce an acid which destroys their progenitors...
Died. Louis Jean Baptiste Lépine, 87, "The Little Man with the Big Stick," longtime (1893-1913) Prefect of the Paris Police; in Paris. He introduced bulletproof vests and sulphuric acid capsules (forerunner of tear gas): the Bertillon identification system: the "Mouqin merry-go-round," "sedative marches" and the "ambulance dodge"-ruses to keep ugly-tempered crowds from forming...
...together. But because last week's result would largely decide whether Princeton, which had not won a major game since 1928, was really on its way back to the upper crust of Eastern football. In early season games Princeton had looked surprisingly powerful, but had yet to be acid-tested. What Columbia's Coach Lou Little feared most was Princeton's prodigious army of reserves, many of them sophomores from last year's undefeated freshman team. His strategy was to fight for an early lead, dig in and hold on. He predicted: "The first period will...
Sports page readers began to be acquainted with Colyumist Pegler's acid commentaries shortly after the War. Before that he had started in Chicago as a United Press reporter in 1912, gone abroad in 1916 to become the U. P.'s star War correspondent until he enlisted in the Navy in 1918. The United Press handled his sports column until 1925, when he joined the Chicago Tribune Syndicate...
Also last week the Treasury imposed higher anti-dumping duties on electric light bulbs and sneakers from Japan, celluloid-covered thumb tacks from Germany, saponified stearic acid from The Netherlands...