Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Contents. In Simcoe, Ont., police arrested Anthony Spellay as a vagrant, searched him, found in his pockets : 4 flashlights, 4 screwdrivers, 10 teaspoons, 5 pkgs. of tobacco, 4 Ibs. of cooked ham, 1 bag of candy, 3 wrenches, 2 extension cords, 1rear-view mirror, i tube of sealing compound,1 steel tape, i windshield wiper, 1 gearshift knob, 1 pr. of ladies' gloves, 1 skirt, 1 brassiere...
...ways among B.O.M. Judges Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield, Clifton Fadiman and John P. Marquand. They have bought a salable name (Miss Pinckney's earlier Three O'Clock Dinner was a bestselling Literary Guild choice, is now being filmed) but not a satisfactory novel. Apparently unabashed, they compound their great mischief by bracketing Miss Pinckney with Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. This tiresome little witch story, which flirts scrappily with the question of good & evil, is as far from the intent and purpose of Moralist Hawthorne as it is from literature-a considerable distance...
...shovel he strongly resembles, works all right when he is building things. But he looks absurd trying to speak English or kiss a girl. The U.S. ideal of villainy is represented in this movie as a Latin American rail magnate (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) who dresses for dinner, manages a compound sentence without stuttering, and tries to keep his lovely daughter (Laraine Day) from getting hitched to a steam shovel...
Then he fed all sorts of insecticides to the rabbits. Some killed the lice, but also killed the lousy rabbits. At last he found a compound (2-pivalyl-I, 3-indandione) which had no apparent effect on the rabbit, but killed all lice that took a single nip. Dose required: 2.5 milligrams (.00006 oz.) per kilogram (2.2 lbs.) of rabbit weight. One-tenth of a milligram fed daily for three weeks was deadly to lice for a month after the dosing stopped. A similar campaign against mosquitoes was not quite so effective. At Kerrville, Tex., an offensive against cattle ticks...
...Department's scientists consider their results inconclusive, but definitely promising. They have a lot more chemicals to try, and they have already established that slight changes in a compound's molecular structure sometimes make it more poisonous to insects or less poisonous to higher animals. Eventually they hope to find a Jekyll-Hyde chemical that will flow harmlessly in the veins of humans, but knock off any insect that sucks the human's blood...