Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward Clement Davidson of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit discovered that he could coagulate burned surfaces by soaking them with tannic acid. The tanned coating kept body moisture from escaping, germs from entering...
...about the same number of patients, apparently physically the same and afflicted with the same disease but each knows about a different gargle. While Dr. Hathaway firmly ensconces his support behind sickly, sweet Glucose, Dr. Means defiantly orders Dobell's, which is rumored but not confirmed to contain carbolic acid...
...Washington the House Patents Committee heard Roy W. Knabenshue, pioneer airshipman, allege that acid had been poured on the late great Macon's girders and guy-wires by the Filipino mess-boy who lost his life in the airship crash. Though Commander Wiley pooh-poohed the suggestion, high Navy officials admitted sabotage was a "distinct possibility...
...this book, which consists of lectures delivered in connection with the Exhibition of British Art at Burlington House in January 1934, Fry was faced with the acid test of his career. The British Isles have never fostered or produced the kind of distinction in the graphic and plastic arts which one would ordinarily expect, in view of the success of English poetry...
...somebody for something in the Tenth Assembly District. Barbara Hutton Mdivani. Doris Duke and Gloria Baker came in for some stern kidding in a ribald song. Imogene Coca made a sprightly and naughty Salvation Army lassie. Meeting at a Girl Scout affair, Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Roosevelt had some acid things to say to each other...