Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Making himself the subject of deathly experiment is his specialty. To show that men have more stamina than dogs, he remained in a chamber filled with hydrocyanic acid gas until a dog died, then walked out with the creature in his arms...
...duty on Brazil's babassu nut. Prime reason is compulsory pasteurization of milk in all major markets. Familiar is everyone with the cry of the orthodox medic that pasteurization kills disease bacteria which might be present in milk. Unfamiliar is the average person with the fact that lactic acid-producing bacteria normally present in milk are likewise killed, retarding souring, making milk a semi-perishable which may be marketed as fresh milk up to ten days from the cow, average city supply five days old on delivery. Thus, via the pasteurizer, every quart of milk produced east...
...into much detail as to method, the German declared that he is getting a digestible sugar, equal in food value to barley, from sawdust, which is mostly a waste product or burned as an inferior fuel in lumber mills. Of the sawdust 60% to 65% becomes sugar, 5% acetic acid, 30% lignin which again can be used to make charcoal or wallboard. The sugar can be converted into protein by treatment with yeast; into fat by feeding it to pigs. Dr. Bergius said last week that, "for the present," food-from-wood is being fed to animals; he avoided saying...
...Head" (TIME, Aug. 31), describing the reconstruction of the probable appearance of a murdered man from his mutilated head, recalled to my mind a case in which an almost identical technique was employed successfully to bring about the identification of a homicidal victim whose face had been burned with acid and fire beyond all recognition. This case happened in Vienna, and the victim was a young woman. Viennese police had a sculptor reconstruct the face of the woman as it probably looked in life. From a photograph of this reconstruction, the woman was identified as Katherina Fellner, an actress...
...pair proceeded to a hotel where Father Coughlin found occasion to declare that a choice between Presidential Nominees Roosevelt and Landon was a choice "between carbolic acid and rat poison...