Word: blisteringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World War I gases, about half-a-dozen (including mustard, phosgene, diphosgene, chlorpicrin, diphenylchlorarsine) proved highly efficient.* Two gases which showed deadly promise-Lewisite, an arsenical blister-producer, and Adamsite, a respiratory irritant-were developed by the Allies during the War, but the peace was signed before they got into action. Adolf Hitler promised last week not to use poison gas, but if gas rolls into the European arena notwithstanding, Lewisite and Adamsite are almost certain to get a thorough trial. Otherwise, military experts believe, the armies will rely on the half-dozen gases which proved efficient in World...
...shackle. Before Sibitzky was back aboard the Falcon, nearly an hour later, the rescue bell, reeling in the line he had attached (see diagram), was pulling itself to the deck of the Squalus. There, two men working inside the chamber clamped the bell over a hatch like a swollen blister on the rump of the sunken ship. The hatch was opened and Lieut. J. C. Nichols and six seamen climbed into the bell...
...Crimson manager, declared yesterday, "If anybody defeats us, they'll do it." A huge WELCOME and CORNELL will stretch diagonally across the field tomorrow if all goes well with Duffy and his men. Bob Lannigan '39, who succeeded Bob Snyder '38 as baton-twirler, has recovered from an open blister on his hand from which he was suffering during the Brown game, and is expected to spin a good game...
...Hinckley, Minn., at noon on Sept. 1, 1894, a forest fire that had been burning nearby swept into town as the wind changed, trapped most of its 1,200 inhabitants. As 475 of them climbed into a train at the station the engineer waited until the paint began to blister on the cars, then pulled out. Ninety waited in a cleared space beside the tracks, were burned to death. Two hundred others raced down the track in another direction, met another train. As they climbed aboard, flames broke out on both sides of the track. Fire chased the train...
...agony of the hot tears that blister his fevered cheeks as he nightly kisses the parched lips and looks upon the famine-pinched faces of his children, as they go supperless to their bed of straw! Who can tell the anguish of his heart when the wife of his bosom bends over him with her pale, earnest face, and, as she wipes the fever-drops from his brow, with the sublime energy of woman's endurance, whispers resignation, hope! . . . How different would be the condition of such a person, if, in the days of his health and strength...