Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next year's campaign there appeared last week The Mirrors of 1932, another of those volumes reflecting (and reflecting upon) public characters who will march across the presidential stage toward the White House.* Though its author remains safely anonymous, most observers thought they recognized the sharp style, the acid outlook of Clinton Wallace Gilbert, Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post and author (anonymously) of the Mirrors of Washington (1921), Behind the Mirrors...
...most successful professional treatments for ringworm include these: opening any blisters and applying cool wet dressings of diluted aluminum acetate liquor or of saturated boric acid; painting daily with a strong solution of permanganate of potash, tincture of iodine, or mercurochrome; anointing with a salve of salicylic and benzoic acids, of ammoniated mercury, or of chrysarobin; exposing to X-rays; soaking in gasoline (six or eight seconds). Combinations of the above may be dangerous...
Cuttlefish bones and crabstones, for acid stomachs...
Tungsten is one of the hardest metals. Its melting point is high, 2,974° C. It is more lustrous than silver, nickel or chromium. Most important commercially is its resistance to corrosives. Only nitric acid and hot hydroxide solutions affect tungsten. Factories dealing with chemicals need just such a resistant to coat their pipes and pots...
Once described as "a bitter cynic who etches plates with the acid of his own bile," Will Dyson is personally the height of amiability. He beamed last week at a group of reporters (female...