Word: dose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he fed all sorts of insecticides to the rabbits. Some killed the lice, but also killed the lousy rabbits. At last he found a compound (2-pivalyl-I, 3-indandione) which had no apparent effect on the rabbit, but killed all lice that took a single nip. Dose required: 2.5 milligrams (.00006 oz.) per kilogram (2.2 lbs.) of rabbit weight. One-tenth of a milligram fed daily for three weeks was deadly to lice for a month after the dosing stopped. A similar campaign against mosquitoes was not quite so effective. At Kerrville, Tex., an offensive against cattle ticks...
...strips were scrubbed up. Replacing the often cruel Yellow Kid were sweet Buster Brown, dreamy Little Nemo, merry Little Jimmy. The Katzenjammer Kids were mean moppets, but in their rebellion against grown-up conventions they were on the children's side. As the long-suffering Inspector said: "Mit dose kids, society...
...Morality Play. The staging, which along with the dances was in the hands of Agues De Mille, introduces startling and effective new devices; and some of Rodgers' music seems remote from anything he has done before. But on top of all this that is new comes a sweet, sticky dose of the conscious, sentimental Americana that was fresh and clever in "Oklahoma!" but too often approached mawkishness in "Carousel...
...liter of boiled water. But the Mâcon Hospital nurses had become woefully unprecise: they had taken to dumping a tablespoonful, or even a fistful, of salt into half a liter of water-and given the solution as a rectal drip. Could such a strong salt dose have killed 17 women? Some of the detective's medical consultants thought it could (the victims' symptoms resembled those of shipwrecked sailors who drink sea water...
...Businessmen," wrote their longtime friend, Editor David Lawrence of the United States News, "are about to be given the same dose of smear publicity that they were given in 1933. Economic crisis is at hand and political government wants to shift the blame from its own shoulders...