Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majority of criminals are identified by facial appearance and fingerprints. But the Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery has been shown cases where tinkering with bones and flesh has completely altered facial appearance. And smart wrongdoers like the late John Dillinger and Homer Van Meter may mutilate their fingertips with acid or otherwise until comparison with filed prints is highly difficult if not impossible. Dillinger and Van Meter did not succeed in preventing identification, but medical men agree that burning or surgery may obliterate the finger patterns entirely. Last week a bald, hulking criminologist named Carleton Simon expounded in great detail...
...Wanda Kirkbridge Farr of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and Miss Sophia H. Eckerson of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Yonkers, N. Y. launched an intensive chemical drive on cotton fibres, which are almost pure cellulose. When they soaked the fibres in strong hydrochloric acid, the cellulose structure came visibly apart under powerful microscopes. The particles, it turned out, had not been too small to see but were hidden by a cementing substance that the acid dissolved. There were football-shaped bodies some .00006 in. long. As the cell wall was built the particles formed compact...
...hangover sufferers the State of New York suggests: "Milk, the alkalizer, works like a charm. Overindulgence, afternoon fag, any time acid 'products' accumulate in your blood, simply alkalize with milk...
Cinchophen. To stimulate the excretion of uric acid and thus to remedy certain states of gout, arthritis, rheumatism, sciatica and neuralgia, doctors recently adopted a synthetic drug called cinchophen, made from quinine and carbolic acid. Soon cinchophen users complained of jaundice. Many died, and, upon autopsy, revealed extensive degeneration of the liver. Doctors nevertheless hesitated to abandon this highly useful drug...
...Richards in 1885. It was successfully tested at the first meeting (September 30, 1935) which was attended by approximately one hundred and fifty men interested in chemistry. The movie "Story of Steel" opened the meeting, and was followed by a talk by Professor Grbunnell Jones about the lactic acid industry entitled "Murder by Proxy," Refreshments were afterwards served. This procedure will be followed in the future, when further talks in the club's Golden Anniversary Lecture Series will be given prominent men in chemical fields...