Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bakery business. In 1924, when Ward Class A (voting) stock was selling between $50 and $130 Mr. Palmer purchased a large Ward interest, has since witnessed a steady decline in the value of his securities. Mr. Palmer's New Jersey Zinc Co., makers of zinc, zinc products, sulphuric acid, lithopone, etc., etc., is the successor of a company established in 1848. It has paid uninterrupted dividends for the last 30 years. In 1929 it earned $9.221.794. In addition to his zinc and baking interests, short, stocky, strong-chinned Mr. Palmer, an outstanding member of Princeton's outstanding Class...
...tricks of shooting people through telephone receivers, kniving them by lynx-eyed orientals, or burning them with vats of green acid no longer provide their old thrill. Audiences yawn. The old stunt of indicating the degree of hauntedness of house by having a darky groan "Oh Lawdy, Lawdy" simply wore itself...
...Wrenshall developed a chaulmoogric acid in combination with an inorganic acid group. This is soluble in water, can be administered with an ordinary hypodermic syringe. More water-soluble than this double acid itself, and so more easily administered, is the sodium salt of this new acid. Tried out on dogs the Wrenshall acid, he reported, proved some six times more therapeutically active than the older ethyl-esters. The Territorial board of health decided to use at once the acid compound on human lepers...
Anyone may guess what happens when the acid of Mr. Babbitt's mind meets the syrup of romanticism. In the history of the romantic movement in the nineteenth century there is plenty of the emotional overtone which grates so harshly on Mr. Babbitt's ear. He goes after it with all his guns. His methods are simple. Beginning with Jean Jacques Rousseau, his arch-enemy, who he appears to believe is responsible for everything that has happened in the last century except the breaking of the halyard on Shamrock V, he makes all the romanticists ridiculous. This is very easy...
...Institute needs more money, a Dr. Stehlik, Moravian paleontologist, plans to go into the mammoth business, utilizing Czechoslovakia's especially rich deposits. Before the Institute scientists can fill an order, they must dig up their mammoth, clean the bones thoroughly, wash them in a solution of chloric acid and water. When the bones are dry, they must treat them with glue, coat them with shellac. The price of a complete mammoth is $30,000 f. o. b. Czechoslovakia...