Word: compounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tune of "Ancient of Days." The lines were published. Not until then, last week, was it discovered that the first letters of the lines in each quatrain spelled a four-letter word. The first two words were the same, an unprintable obscenity. The last two words were a compound, specific form of the first, even more unprintable. All four words formed an obscene ejaculation evidently aimed at the lofty sentiments expressed in all college hymns. Amid guffaws from like-minded undergraduates and painful embarrassment for decent Harvardmen, Author Fitzhugh was expelled. Said he: "I guess I never did grow...
...Catholic priest, and sailed away to China with Lou Henry Hoover, are details familiar to all since the campaign. Mrs. Hoover moves steadily through his background from then on. At Tientsin during the Boxer Uprising, she nursed the wounded at the club, scooting past open corners of the compound on a bicycle while bullets whizzed above...
Necessary and desired as salt is, it is forbidden those suffering from high blood pressure, Bright's disease, dropsy. Victims can forego the ingestion of salt. But its taste they crave. Chemists and pharmacists have long sought to compound a substance that tastes like salt but is harmless in these diseases...
...Progress Medalist is Director Charles Edward Kenneth Mees of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratory; in 1913, for work done in his native England. Medalist Sheppard is the man who discovered that "if the cows didn't eat mustard plant, we could have no movies" -a trace of sulphur compound in gelatine being essential to the speed of silver halide reactions in photography.-ED. Harding's Portrait...
...pity our children for unless they compel the recognition of their rights, . . . they will be borne down with added burdens of increased wealth in profiteers' hands to command and compound still greater interest, dividends and rent...