Word: acidizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here is a clever, biting political satire born of the nimble brain and acid wit of Walter Hasenclaver, "der bose bub" of German dramatists since the passing of the terrible Widekind, staged all over Europe as an example of Hasenclaver "boseheit," adapted as a piece of Soviet propaganda by the People's Commisar of Education at the Second Moscow Art Theatre, and now staged for the first time in this country by the Harvard Dramatic Club on the basis of a fresh literal translation from the German text as the forty-third production of the society...
...Rangoon last fortnight, Narasingha Swami, Indian mystic, ate a handful of ground glass, drank half a drachma of nitric acid, some sulfuric acid, also swallowed a grain of strychnine and a grain of potassium cyanide.. He died in agony. His friends explained it was because he had been kept from doing his yatayoga (breath-control and autosuggestion exercises) by swarms of visitors at his house...
Mucin. A new and apparently efficacious treatment for ulcers of the stomach and duodenum was presented before the Chicago Medical Society last week. The stomach is lined with mucous membranes which exude a sticky substance called mucin. Mucin lubricates the stomach. It also combines with hydrochloric acid in the stomach and slows up the digestive action of pepsin. It occurred to Dr. Samuel Julian Fogelson & associates of Northwestern University that lack of sufficient mucin might have a great deal to do with ulcers...
...more spots may become ulcerated, the mucosa eroded. The erosion may bare the stomach wall. Nothing then protects the wall from the corroding action of hydrochloric acid and pepsin. Unless the process is halted, the gastric juices digest a hole right through the stomach...
...obvious relish. Before assuring his actors that they are addle-headed and incompetent, he removes his checked coat, folds it carefully and throws it on the ground. He twists his leading lady's wrists when he suspects her of liking one of his stunt flyers and then rubs corrosive acid on the control wires of that pilot's plane. At this point, the esprit de corps of the stunt flyers*?three pilots who belonged to the same unit in France?reasserts itself. One (Robert Armstrong) against whom the director has no grudge, takes off in the damaged plane...