Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dumping threat, for the U. S. not only has a law against foreigners dumping in the U. S., but even when the Secretary made his announcement the Treasury Department was considering forbidding imports of steel from Germany, tennis shoes, electric light bulbs and calcium carbide from Japan, stearic acid and thumb tacks from Holland, rock salt from Canada, woven wire fencing, sulphide paper and binder twine from England-all on the grounds of dumping. Following his wheat export proposal Mr. Wallace announced final details of the plan to raise hog and corn prices (TIME, Aug. 21): the Government will spend...
...Hebrew named Sanford (Sidney Miller) who refuses to be cheered by Dr. Stevens' pills and remedies. When she calls "Good night, he smiles and says: "What's good about it? All the benks are going to close." Another Language (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This vigorous if slightly over-acid adaptation of Rose Franken's play has the misfortune of being released only three months after the cinema version of The Silver Cord which it somewhat resembles in point of view if not in construction. But where The Silver Cord impeached only one miserable old lady for her exaggerated...
...Council on Pharmacy & Chemistry last week refused to approve the use of the compound as a medicine. Dinitrophenol of which they all were so fearful promises to be a vigorous prod for sluggards and a subtle weapon for murderers. It is a yellow, crystalline powder closely related to picric acid (of which explosives and ointments for burns are made). It costs only $12 a pound and is easily purchasable...
...country, the people who have constituted a large proportion of summer school registration in many cases have had to dispense with the luxury of education for the bare essentials of living. It is deplorable that poor and in some cases dishonest municipal financing, which was put to the acid test by the depression, had deprived many instructors of their pay and slashed salaries thirty per cent. In spite of the obstacles of the times and the fact that more than one hundred schools lost money last year, Harvard among them, only two have closed their doors. Over a long period...
...Tannic acid (or tannin) is the leatherizing element in oak, sumach and other plants. It is tannin in tea which makes a strong infusion pucker the mouth...