Word: dose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snow" storm of 1,500 kilograms-one and one-half tons-of heroin, all of which, according to Chief Russell, was smuggled into France and Germany in double-bottomed trunks, en route for the U. S., Egypt and the Far East. One kilo of heroin equals 250,000 medical doses. At this rate Balkans Products is producing 187,500,000 medical doses monthly, or a double dose for 3,000,000 dope fiends daily...
...keep a healthy dog from ever having distemper it is now necessary only to inject in it (preferably at the age of three months) two doses of Laidlaw-Dunkin vaccine, followed fortnight later by a dose of living virus. Preferred by some dog-owners because it involves only one trip to the veterinarian is a simultaneous inoculation with serum and virus. Theoretically sound, the practical worth of the simultaneous method has not yet been established. To cure sick dogs, an injection of serum during the early stages of the disease has proven effective...
...game is a dose of tonic for the people that have spent their week within the four walls of office or study. Even playful old ladies are susceptible to this dose of medicine that is football. Many a good derby has been crushed under their antics of new spirit. There is nothing more interesting than the milling mob on the gridiron at the close of a game. This whole process is one of mob spirit being ventilated...
...Mercedes, Tex., confronted with the fact that Mrs. Lucinda Loya de Candu had died a few minutes after taking his supposedly harmless prescription, Dr. Humberto Ruggi Garrido took an identical dose in the presence of challenging relatives. He died in a few minutes. Doctors recognized that citric acid and potassium bicarbonate in the medicine, harmless if taken at an interval, together formed potassium citrate and soda water. The soda water bloated the two people to death...
...latest novel Authoress Baum, a literary midwife adept at helping her characters give birth to what she intimates are their souls, turns in a good job of soul-saving midwifery. Only after her hero has gone through highly sensational throes does she ease him with a dose of religio-romantic twilight sleep. The tale of his agonizings, told with a dramatic flair, will make a better movie than it does a book, as was probably intended...