Word: breath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some want to educate the public to enjoy and preserve the aroma of onion, which they feel is as pleasing as that of a rose, if you look at it right. Others favor an attempt to popularize the scientists' findings and show the public how to eliminate onion breath.* A few hold that the onion has been slandered and that what you think is onion breath may be just The Bronx...
...windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river...
...central nervous system were the first things to suffer." In similar vein at Yale last week Sir Joseph recalled how he had sat in a room suffused almost to the killing point with carbon dioxide gas. Of this odorless gas which appears, among other places, in the exhaled breath of all animals, Sir Joseph declared: "The highest percentage which I know to have been breathed experimentally was 11%, and that for a short time by Mr. John Burdon Sanderson Haldane. Dr. Rodolfo Margaria and I have been in an atmosphere of 10% carbon dioxide for, perhaps, five minutes...
...took certain samples of my own breath in the chamber at intervals, a process which required some nicety of manipulation, the correct turning of taps and so forth. The analyses proved that there had been errors of manipulation in the last two samples. Now the interesting point is not that these errors occurred, though that is quite significant, but that I could have gone into a court of law and sworn that one at least of the two was correctly taken. On the occasion on which we had been in 10% carbon dioxide, when I came out I was retaining...
...monetary channel France must now navigate. Deputy Reynaud dismissed as of minimum importance the stabilization agreement Finance Minister Vincent Auriol had verbally obtained from U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain (TIME, Oct. 5). It was scarcely worth the breath in which it w.as spoken, M. Reynaud indicated, but it was also harmless since neither Washington nor London for the moment is financially at odds with Paris...