Word: disinfect
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...crusade to disinfect Miami's city hall of political dysentery, the Miami News won a Pulitzer Prize. Miami got a new mayor and, this week, a new city commission. In last week's primary for the commissioners, a lot of Miami Negroes got something they never had had before: a vote...
...Mary to laughing (see cut). Last week he tried to laugh off his unfunny predicament by telling an inquiring reporter how the McElroy lawn was doing. Boss Tom himself ordered his councilmen to fall in with Mayor Smith. Object: to convince the Missouri Legislature that Kansas City could disinfect itself without further aid from Governor Lloyd C. Stark, who favors a bill to give the State control of the Pendergast police department...
...sunny afternoon last May, 61-year-old Frank Hoffman, who was working on a farm outside Hagerstown, Md., began to disinfect the barn with a high-pressure spraying hose. Suddenly the machine jammed, backfired, showered Hoffman with carbolic acid and lime. He whipped out his bandanna handkerchief, rubbed his eyes, and despite the searing pain continued working. In a few days Farmer Hoffman was stone blind...
...sister, and the rebellious, desperate, exciting world to which Goldberg had introduced her. An Irish boy fell in love with her, carried her off to Ireland to live with his parents until she could make up her mind to marry him. Julie loved him too, loved Ireland, tried to disinfect her speech and thoughts to conform with a pleasant, proper environment. But when the showdown came she streaked back to London to meet a chastened, honest Goldberg on his release, realized that only when she was with him was she in the thick of things...
...laws of most States, silver nitrate, Argyrol, or some other silver salt must be put in the eyes of newborn babes to disinfect the mucous membrane, prevent blindness. Its manufacture is very simple. For years Dr. Barnes turned out the world's supply of genuine Argyrol in a little ramshackle factory which had just eight employes: five white women, three colored men. He never employed more than 20 people. Argyrol leaves the factory in the form of minute crystals. Little drops of water, little grains of Argyrol, made the mighty Dr. Barnes (six ft. high, 200 Ib.) a multimillionaire...