Word: disinfect
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Enforcement officials had spent $500,000, waited two years to make their new accusations. They discovered that many a manufacturer of paints, varnishes, lacquers and disinfectants sells his products to customers who have nothing to paint or varnish, nothing to disinfect. By a process of distillation these bootlegging consumers remove the denaturant elements from the goods they purchase, extract drinkable ethanol (grain alcohol). Included in the charges were manufacturers of industrial alcohol as well as those manufacturers who use the alcohol as a solvent. U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co., biggest producer in the U. S.,and Glidden Co., Cleveland...
...President Coolidge reduced the tariff on phenol (carbolic acid) by 50%. Carbolic acid is used to make telephones, cigaret holders, auto enamels, explosives, and many another U. S. product, as well as to disinfect...
...drivers' vocabulary into the theatre. Although the board of temperance, etc. as given above, quotes no examples to lend point to its protests, one can easily imagine the identity of the plays which have wrung its collective heart; particularly since Mayor Curley has recently taken it upon himself to disinfect the Boston production of "What Price Glory." The Methodist organization further makes a prediction which is gloomy or heartening, according to the hearer's previous prejudice: namely, that the coming New York theatrical season will be the most profane in American history...
...victorious mood, may sweeten itself with a refinement that feels a vulgar thought like a stain, and store up sunshine against darker days. It is the books which heighten and clarify the character, whose seciety I would bid you seek. I think they tend to keep us pure. They disinfect the imagination; they fill the memory with light and fragrance. Whatever a man's station, whatever his other opportunities, there is one Company from which he can never be excluded, and it is that of the master-spirits of all the centuries. When one reads Boswell, he cannot help thinking...