Word: commonnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown of Philadelphia's Kensington Hospital for Women proudly set out for Toronto to tell the American Physiological Society about their amazing new discovery: oxalic acid for rapid coagulation of blood. But when the young chemists got to Toronto, they were scientifically hissed & booed. Reason: oxalic acid, a common cleaning fluid and ink remover, is used by physicians in a derivative form to prevent coagulation of blood for transfusions. It was impossible, said the scoffing physiologists for an anticoagulant to produce coagulation...
...nearly half the size of Chrysler's profit for the quarter), came out of a generation of accumulated fat. This followed a $32,937,131 drain in 1938, caused by a loss of $7,717,454 and preferred stock dividends of $25,219,677. Once Steel's common holders worried anxiously about their dividends; now they know, and the preferred holders are taking their turn at worrying...
...besides being rich in almost every department of art (TIME, March 6), surprised the authorities by drawing 169,260 visitors at 25? each up to April 15 (the Sally Rand Dnude Ranch drew 228,356). Sharp-eyed Guard Seymour nevertheless found plenty to criticize from the standpoint of the common man, whom he denominated Joe Bloake and furnished with a wife and four children. Main points...
...What has M-G-M in common with a favorite subject of the Assyrian sculptors...
...What has Alfred M. Landon of Kansas in common with Vincent van Gogh . . .?" "What is it that is first bitten and then bathed...