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Word: disinfects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Nov. 14, 1927 | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSIONAL PROFANITY | 10/2/1925 | See Source »

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