Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often to autointoxication, intestinal ulcers and even cancer (TIME, Dec. 7). Great too are the dangers of laxatives, purgatives and cathartics.* On the household medicine shelf is the array of epsom salts, castor oil and compound cathartic pills or their masked coordinates. The housewife has learned from a long chain of gossips to use these whenever any of her progeny complain of stomach ache, and as a rule she is safe in their use, for the really serious stomach and intestinal disorders are comparatively rare...
...During the last year Mr. Penney's business has shown a greater gain than any other well-known chain stores except F. & W. Grand...
...coast of Liberia, Africa. There he found a man who had lived almost two years beyond the scriptural three score and ten, a bristly-bearded old man in horn-rimmed spectacles on board a quiet yacht. Death took him, took Edward Wyllis Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, whose address during his failing last years had been, "On Board S. S. Ohio, abroad on the waters of the world...
Round and round and round. The hours merged into nights, the nights into days, until all nights and days were one, an endless circle coiling round and round, until past, present, future, became only a) chain-driven wheel rotating under the arena roof. Who could tell tomorrow from yesterday? Not the pedaling juggernauts. For all they knew, Time had reversed its gears and left them to pump on and on into the past. Douglas Fairbanks offered $200 for a sprint; Mary Pickford's starry gaze followed a little wearily the incessant circlers. A bronzed well-dressed little man kept...
...Source. "The usual method of infection in man is by eating pork containing trichinae [certain tiny worms]; the hogs become infected from eating swill that contains the bodies of infected rats. The rats become infected from eating one another and from eating scraps of infected pork; thus the endless chain of infection. The rats (and dogs) are important sources of infection, as far as man is concerned, in countries in which they are used for food. The infection in man is regarded as more or less accidental, the lower animals being the normal hosts for trichinae...