Word: acidizing
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...school. Almost all the delinquents studied indulged in some misconduct at school, ranging from defiance, stubborness, and lying to stealing and sexual misconduct. The Gluecks suggest that the school could function as the "litmus paper of personality and character maladaption, reflecting early in the child's growth the acid test of his failure in his first attempts to cope with the problems of life...
...After four months of loafing around the campus Coke machines, a U.S. Secret Service agent pounced on three University of Wyoming students and hustled them off to jail. Their crime: shrinking pennies to dime-size in a one-minute bath of nitric acid. The law conceded that only about $20 worth of Cokes had been stolen in all, and that as many as 20 other students had done the same thing, but it still charged the three pranksters with mutilating U.S. currency. Bail was set at $1,000 apiece. Maximum penalty: a $2,000 fine and five years in jail...
Thanks to the "profoundly irresponsible" Royal Commission, even the Houses of Parliament suffered. Once again the stone came in unseasoned and without regard for the original lie of the rock. "A few decades of exposure to the climate of London and particularly to its acid-charged rain, and the whole of that vast display of Gothic revivalism began to crumble and dissolve...
...drug companies had been working simultaneously on the same new drug for tuberculosis (TIME, March 3), it looked as though the arm of coincidence had been fully extended. Last week the arm stretched a bit more: from Spain came word that the identical drug, hydrazide of isonicotinic acid, has been developed there independently. Moreover, to the Spanish doctors must go credit for trying the drug on human patients a full three months before it was used at Staten Island's Sea View Hospital...
...concert opened with the acid sonorities of the Quartet for Piano and Strings. Instead of the usual Coplandesque breadth of expression, there is a depth in this work, a concentration of latent forces than cannot be grasped at first hearing. It will probably be a long time before the work is fully understood by the musical public. There seemed to be certain errors of judgement in the piece however: the uninteresting piano writing in the first movement, the curiously out-of-place whimsicality of the second, and the thin, widely spaced, unpleasant harmonics near...