Word: beaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forenoon or perhaps late at night, in such establishments as Reuben's, the advent of the Harvard Bar to Boylston Street will be an occurrence of the greatest import. To the smaller group whose memory spans the long dry years to the days when one could get a foaming beaker, the timely reappearance of mugs and their slightly impoverished content will bring back innumerable memories...
...steam. The low temperature of the fluid, explained, caused it to evaporate in his mouth. Would any one else like to try the experiment? One Joseph Phillips, a sceptical sophomore, stepped to the platform. Instead of merely holding the liquified gases in his mouth, he raised high the beaker, swallowed at a gulp. In- stantly, he began to gasp, to gag, strangle. He was in grave danger, everyone saw, of being blasted by the expanding vapor. The professor shouted: "Keep your mouth open." Vapor began to issue in immense, frothy clouds from this orifice. Sceptic Phillips recovered...
...first-class process will ever go hungry. Today, patriotism offers yet another inducement. The news of the German dye invasion should send every chemist in the country scurrying to his flasks and crucibles. In that case, it will not be long before we can meet the German beaker to beaker and vanquish them in a fair fight. Not Tariffs but Test-tubes is the permanent answer...