Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dose...
...statements in the book which are absolutely false; 111 which are extremely doubtful, and 165 paragraphs in which Hughes discusses a character which has never before been discovered as the evil genius behind Washington. That is Sally Fairfax. In fact, the book is written to give us a good dose of Sally Fairfax." Concerning the other book, Professor Hart said...
...openly with State guarantee of freedom from harmful adulterant. But in the United States the legal penalty for this harmless act is death. That death does not result from the many drinks taken is because our law is not enforced; legally all alcohol sold should contain the lethal dose of so-called denaturant. How many juries could be found to send a man to the gallows for taking one drink of whiskey? . . . "Had the United States adopted Quebec's plan and price list on Jan. 1, 1920, we might have continued to drink alcohol as of yore...
Fruit flies and other insects withered under a fraction of a second's exposure, soon died. A rubber-plant leaf oozed white latex from millions of tiny punctures at one short dose...
...some, "Lord Raingo" may appear a magnificent exposition of realism. But it is a case of homeopathic remedy administered in an allopathic dose. Mr. Bennett definitely crosses the line where realism merges into tautological flatulence. Elegence of style, felicity of phrase, restraint, suggestion these prerequisites to delight in reading, all are submerged in an ocean of microcosms, and uninteresting ones at that...