Word: acidizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ears. Copland is tall, energetic, large-nosed, engagingly toothy. He began studying music at 13. In the early 19205, as a student at Fontainebleau (first pupil of famed Nadia Boulanger), he was a highbrow Gershwin, wading in the shallow stream of jazz. Then he plunged into the acid eddies of dissonance and atonality, emerged with the reputation of being one of the least understandable of U. S. musicians. Today, Copland has begun writing music for the people, for as large an audience as possible, "to get rid of the idea that American music is a weak sister...
Chief cause of peptic ulcers, which afflict about 330,000 U. S. citizens (mostly business and professional men), is oversecretion of harsh gastric juice. Gastric juice, when abnormally acid, erodes the delicate lining of the stomach, produces inflamed spots near its lower end. To experimenters who have long been seeking an easily available chemical which would check gastric secretion in ulcer patients, Physiologists John Stephens Gray, Elfie Wieczorowski and famed Researcher Andrew Conway Ivy of Chicago's Northwestern University brought hopeful data last week. In Science they reported that "extracts of normal male urine," injected in small amounts...
Until this week courts had held that Article III-Section 1 of the Constitution* meant the Federal Government could not tax its judges' salaries. The inference was that Congress might sway justice by slapping taxes on its dispensers. That interpretation, acid-tongued Justice Felix Frankfurter in effect ruled this week, is so much tommyrot...
Undaunted, Drs. Steinberg & Brown invited the meeting to the University of Toronto laboratories where they bled a rabbit. Without oxalic acid the rabbit's blood coagulated in two minutes, 29 seconds. With oxalic acid, the blood coagulated in one minute, 29 seconds. But still the skeptical scientists claimed that oxalic acid was poisonous. Dr. Brown promptly rolled up his sleeve, displayed an arm pockmarked from hundreds of injections, brandished a hypodermic needle. When no one volunteered to give him an injection of the acid, he gave himself a standard dose, thus convinced his timid colleagues that the acid...
Several years ago Drs. Steinberg & Brown learned that oxalic acid is present in small quantities in normal blood. In the last three years they have injected standard, three-milligram doses of oxalic acid into the veins of almost 1,000 persons who suffered from excessive bleeding due to such varied conditions as hemophilia, gastric ulcers, childbirth, jaundice and kidney and lung infections. In every case bleeding stopped within five minutes, the normal coagulating time, even though the patients had been bleeding as long as two hours. In many cases bleeding ceased within 45 seconds of injection. Oxalic acid thus appeared...