Word: acridity
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...Jacob Epstein's weird London sculptures (Rima, Night, etc.) have caused acrid controversy throughout England (TIME, July...
...comes from." Ask him what ale and he will cry, "Bass's Ale!" Almost as familiar as the Prince of Wales' three feathers is the pale red triangle of Bass's Pale Ale and Stout, sign manual of the firm of Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton who have brewed the potent, acrid, yellowish brew?which Britons drink in preference to beer?ever since Washington wintered at Valley Forge...
...Turks as the pest section, straggles down from the summit of the rock to the bleak modern city at its base. Up the rock now, as the Ghazi gazed, leaped crackling flames, lighting up the plain. For hours the Ghazi worked shoulder to shoulder with firemen, policemen, soldiers. The acrid smoke of burning buildings mingled with the smell of burning fish. By morning it was seen that fire had gutted 500 houses, one hotel, three khans (caravansaries) and a mosque. Since meat, vegetables, almost all food is sold in the "Fish Bazaar," Angora suffered a serious food shortage until...
...grain alcohol, and may be used socially (as in cocktails) as well as industrially. Methyl alcohol is wood alcohol, made by distillation of the gases which escape from burning wood. Unlike ethyl, methyl is immediately poisonous, almost instantaneously fatal. Amyl alcohol is a by-product of ethyl, is an acrid, evil-smelling substance commonly known as fusel oil, and is a comparatively unimportant member of the alcohol family. Industrial alcohol is ethyl alcohol denatured by the addition of methyl alcohol to make it unfit for beverage purposes. There are other denaturants, such as sulphuric ether, turpentine, benzol and animal...
...bring me peppers!" Armfuls and armfuls of dried chili were stacked on the windward side of the steeple by artful Insurrectos who took care to work under the eaves of the church, out of range of the machine gun. Then the pepper pyre was lighted. Thick clouds of oily, acrid, pepper smoke poured up to envelop the steeple, blind, gag, choke. Passed ten minutes. Then the bolts of the church door grated. Out to surrender filed a sorry, coughing, spitting, weepy little crew of federals. Their rebel captors, pious, had thus avoided the desecration of bursting open a church. Entering...