Word: acids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supernormal energy was sodium dihydrogen phosphate. This salt was administered in the form of a drink to the shock troops as they entered battle or during long marches. For psychological reasons other battalions were served with a sham stimulant at the same time, acidulated with tartaric instead of phosphoric acid...
Bacteriologists have long used anilin dyes of various colors to " stain " different species of bacteria. The tubercle bacillus does not stain easily, but when it does, it clings tenaciously to the dye, in spite of immersion in alcohol and strong acids, and for this reason is called " acid-fast." Non-acid-fast bacteria (such as the typhoid bacillus) yield readily to the " antibodies" produced by the injection of dead bacteria of the same disease. But the acid-fast germs are encased in or contain fatty cells called " lipoids," which resist digestion when injected into the body and thus generate...
...Corper, of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, Denver, has shown experimentally that carbon dioxide (carbonic acid gas) has an inhibitory effect on the growth of tubercle bacilli...
JOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE. Here was a Mr. Facing-Against-Both-Ways. "He opposed all parties, all movements and pretty much all men." Washington, both Adamses, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Clay?in time he stood against them all. A withering eye, a "ghostly, blighting . . . long, lean forefinger," an acid tongue, an irritable nature?for 30 years in the House of Representatives, "he was a furious negative...
...forecasts the early attainment of complete directional control of radio. He is working to perfect a system by which radio messages will be received only by the persons for whom they are intended. His experiments, extending over a considerable period, will soon be put to the acid test on his specially fitted yacht Electra, on which he will cruise down the coast of Europe and Africa. Messages will be sent from Wales and other distant places to test his theory. The secret is being closely guarded, but the method is said to depend on a new kind of receiving instrument...