Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late famed Joseph Pennell used to say that an etcher who did not print his own plates was not an artist but a manufacturer. The collector sees but half the beauty in a Whistler etching until he realizes how elegant Jimmy deepened his blacks by rebiting with stronger acid, lightened unnecessary lines by brushing them with varnish...
...minutes after the food enters, the stomach secretes hydrochloric acid and pepsin which digest the food into a sour semifluid called chyme. The stomach churns this chyme, pumps it through a valve called the pylorus (gatekeeper) into the duodenum...
...Then he solders up the hole. The method Dr. Alvarez prefers gives the stomach an artificial outlet. The ulcerated section of the duodenum or jejunum is cut out, the healthy ends are sewed together and to the stomach's artificial opening. Thus the jejunum connects directly with the acid stomach, gets a protective alkaline seepage from the connected duodenum. By this procedure the Mayo Clinic avoids many a secondary ulcer in the jejunum...
...Mercedes, Tex., confronted with the fact that Mrs. Lucinda Loya de Candu had died a few minutes after taking his supposedly harmless prescription, Dr. Humberto Ruggi Garrido took an identical dose in the presence of challenging relatives. He died in a few minutes. Doctors recognized that citric acid and potassium bicarbonate in the medicine, harmless if taken at an interval, together formed potassium citrate and soda water. The soda water bloated the two people to death...
Uses of Dr. Fink's tungsten plate will be less ubiquitous. Its chief value lies in its resistance to hydrochloric acid. Only gold is so resistant. But gold is too precious to coat the pots and pipes of Industry. Professor Fink, 51, claims to be the "originator of the drawn tungsten filament'' for lamps.* Another scientist given the kudos is General Electric's Dr. William David Coolidge, 59. In 1914 the American Academy of Arts & Sciences gave Dr. Coolidge its prized Rumford Medal for the ''invention and applications of ductile tungsten." Dr. Coolidge also...