Word: acridly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparent success. The harmlessness of BCG was violently challenged when 76 vaccinated German infants died of tuberculosis (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931). Although the courts found that negligence of hospital attaches was responsible and the League of Nations pronounced BCG harmless, it has not ceased to be the subject of acrid dispute...
...winter wind, painting the leaf and foliage dun and red, as age brings chrome and artificial scarlet to the cheeks of the decayed beauty. The skies are leaden, every rainy gust sweeps the skeleton branches cleaner, spreading on valley path and craggy niche a Turkey carpet. The airs, acrid with frost and aromatic from the sting of wood-smoke, freeze the new-pressed cider in the half-buried hogshead...
...thermometers at 91° during the final Conference session, many delegates preferred to sip long drinks at the bar downstairs, leaving their places empty. Those who sat and sweltered whispered jokes among themselves as leading Conference delegates read its swan songs. Depending on the swan, the song was either acrid, gloomy, polite or optimistic. Swans...
...Engineering Chemistry. Woolen and silk clothes, rugs and furnishings produce prussic acid and ammonia as well as carbon monoxide and dioxide. Burning wool also produces toxic hydrogen sulfide. Cotton, rayon, paper, wood and other cellulose produce poisonous concentrations of carbon monoxide and dioxide, and acetic acid which makes smoke acrid and causes coughing...
...when embittered, acrid fogeys...