Word: acidizing
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...Israel and Boston City hospitals, Dr. Sieve now practices in his own clinic, alone except for six technicians. He has had a remarkable variety of medical interests: the ductless glands, nutrition, hemorrhage, fertility and now antifertility. , Eleven years ago Dr. Sieve was among those who proclaimed that para-aminobenzoic acid would restore grey hair to its original color. By now, the medical profession has discarded this idea...
...Jane has the impact of a cork shot out of a pop-gun. For Jane is a return to pre-war English drawing rooms, to a comfortable society which prefers to share Mr. Chamberlin's confidence in Hitler. It is a paradise in which blustering old rakes and acid cynics are the only heavies. Yet, despite its weightlessness, the world of Jane is a highly civilized and amusing place...
...when the business board calls it a day, the photographers have their negatives in the acid. Later, the negatives are set on the engraving machine, and are taken from there straight to the stone...
Author Wilson seems to see his novel as a modern morality play. In its terms, vulgarity is evil, good taste is grace, "to let life bore you" is the cardinal sin, and no one is ever saved from anything. His crisp prose style and his deft aim with the acid of satire keep his novel from being pointlessly sordid. But as the parade of homosexual flirts, pimps and spivs crosses its pages, it becomes uncertain whether Author Wilson is exploring the lower depths of England or of Hell...
Thus German spies combine meticulous exactitude with an unfailing rigidity of method. During World War I, for example, they made the brilliant discovery that a message written in acetic acid on the outside of an egg would disappear, once the egg was boiled, into the inside. The Allies caught on to this trick; but 25 years after, in World War II, the Germans were still using the boiled-egg device. The British, on the other hand, depended so much on their brilliant powers of improvisation that they often neglected the simplest details. Pinto, who used to inspect British agents before...