Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration. Interested in the relation of the chemical condition of a worker's blood to his general efficiency, Professor Dill put the well-known Melrose runner and 24 other persons through a series of 20-minute runs on a tread-mill, in order to determine the amount of lactic acid accumulated in their blood...
...President Chase permit himself to forget that Professor Arthur Cutts Willard, investigating the ventilation of long ducts, made possible the construction of such tubes as Manhattan's Holland Vehicular Tunnel or that Professor Roger Adams has been working on the synthesis of chaulmoogric acid, the most effective remedy yet known for leprosy...
...dollars are spent yearly by the public for dentifrices which have only the cleansing value of soap and water, no medicative value whatever. Strikingly in contrast to its rivals' advertisements have been those for Colgate which declared: ''Colgate's has never claimed to cure pyorrhea, to correct an acid condition of the mouth?things no toothpaste can do. Colgate does claim to clean teeth better...
After 14 years of diligence and research Dr. Friedrich Bergius of Heidelberg University last week announced another ersatz: sugar from wood. He considers "all difficulties solved" in turning wood into cellulose, treating the cellulose with hydrochloric acid to get ersatz-holz-zucker. The product is similar to beet sugar in taste and application...
...pregnant often develop. Like magpies (Pica is Latin for magpie), they eat all things they encounter. Dr. Fuchs' patient, a man, has swallowed needles, nails, knife blades, spoons, a screwdriver handle, a beer seidel handle, coins, matches, all with no apparent harm. Once he drank sulphuric acid, another time lysol. He is allowed no clothes with buttons. Last week he discovered a new source of false food, his fellow inmates. He would pounce upon an unwary victim, trip him up and, snarling, chew off every button, every fastening. Replete, he would release the poor fellow and would run, whimpering...