Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...added essential oils from certain herbs, to give the requisite tastes, a certain amount of quinine, which gives the necessary coup de fouet (crack of the whip) to the appetite, a certain amount of sugar to counteract the bitter taste of the quinine, and a certain amount of alcohol to bring it up to or 18 degrees, which assures the stabilization of the mixture...
...word "liquor" or the phrase "intoxicating liquor" shall be construed to include alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, gin, beer, ale, porter and wine and in addition thereto any spirituous, vinous, malt or fermented liquor, liquids and compounds, whether medicated, proprietary, patented or not and by whatever name called containing one-half of 1 per centum or more of alcohol by volume which are fit for use for beverage purposes...
Last week the following were news: Frederick Henry Bedford Jr. was elected president of Standard Alcohol Co., a new concern formed to handle Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey's manufacture of alcohol from petroleum. This branch of Standard's business was previously the subject of litigation with Petroleum Chemical Corp., owned by National Distillers and Barnsdall Corp- Now Petroleum Chemical Corp. will have a large stock interest in Standard Alcohol, settling the suits. Mr. Bedford is a director of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey). His father was vice president of the company in charge of its lubrication...
...tongue, causes no pain. But as the growth increases and eats into sensory nerves, the pain becomes indescribably horrible. Morphine has long been the doctor's analgesiac. Dr. Henry Swartley Ruth, Philadelphia homeopath, who attended the Congress of Anesthetists in Manhattan last week, recommended alcohol as a pain killer. He traces the sensory nerve leading from the site of the cancer and injects about a cubic centimeter of 45% alcohol near the point where the nerve trunk joins the spinal cord. The alcohol deadens the pain completely, does not interfere with muscular action. One of Dr. Ruth...
...partridge he had shot. Coiled in the bird's gullet, still showing signs of life but with its head firmly imbedded in the bird's gizzard, was a 15-in. grass snake. Gunner Giachino put the innards with snake attached, on show in a jar of alcohol in the window of the Reilly Picture Shop at Laurium. ¶ Omen of a cold winter: partridges' legs are heavily feathered this year...