Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With periods of work on the treadmill varying from a few seconds of sprinting to intermittent half-hour periods of walking, the runners present all the stages of physical exhaustion. Blood tests are systematically taken, and the blood analyzed to find out the amount of lactic acid, presence of which is the chief cause of fatigue. Test-tubes, beakers, flasks, burners, and numerous scientific devices make this experimental room vaguely reminiscent of a Sax Rohmer novel or the mid-year nightmares of Chem A students...
...customer to drop a 25? piece into a slot. The machine then presents a funnel in which the man may deposit a sample of urine. That done, he pulls a lever which automatically pours the fluid into two smaller, transparent containers. As the customer waits, the machine automatically squirts acid into one of the containers, a mixed solution into the second. If the urine in the first container shows white, the man has kidney trouble. If the other sample of urine turns red or yellow he has diabetes...
...Extension of studies now in progress on the mode of action of Vitamin C or ascorbic acid to include: (a) testing, with scorbutic guinea pigs, the activity of products intermediate in the synthesis of ascorbic acid from xylose; (b) the preparation and testing of substances formed by systematic changes in the structure of ascorbic acid; (c) an investigation of the manner in which ascorbic acid is produced by animals which are not subject to scurvy...
Sixteen hours before flames swept the $5,500,000 luxury liner off the New Jersey coast, acting Capt. William F. Warms told government investigators, Capt. Robert R. Wilmott, her master, was so fearful one of his officers would attack him with sulphuric acid that he locked himself in his cabin...
...this agreement worked was shown by a letter from the du Pont agent in South America, one N. E. Bates Jr., to I. C. I. in which he pointed out that the Roosevelt embargo made it impossible for du Pont to fill an order for 440 Ib. of picric acid. 4,409 Ib. of TNT, 66 Ib. of nitroglycerine for the Chaco war, but since Britain had signed no embargo I. C. I. was quite welcome to the order instead. Mr. Bates was most apologetic about the smallness of the order...