Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tetraethyl lead. They had been transferring it into containers to be sent to gasoline stations where it is diluted with the oil. They probably breathed the fumes of the poisonous stuff. Apparently the effect of taking the poison in this way is cumulative and not felt until a considerable dose, possibly a fatal dose, has been received. They may have become careless, and, having no immediate unpleasant effects, continued their carelessness until they were fatally seized. A remedy for the poisoning, if it is not in too advanced a stage, is believed to be the use of intravenous injections...
...OUTSIDER-Lionel Atwill and Katherine Cornell vibrantly give a medical quack a dose of his own medicine...
...York World made a startling announcement and seasoned-it with a liberal dose of sal Atticum. The announcement was to the effect that "Wales" was not indisposed toward matrimony with the fair Ileana, 15-year-old daughter of the King and Queen of Rumania...
...executed. But we ask whether there is not yet a third Lunacharsky addition to the prefacial exponent and the dramatist- Lunacharsky the Bolshevik Commissioner of Education and head of the censorship-and whether the latter doesn't think this production of our national proletarian theatre needs a heavy dose of blue pencil...
...believe that the chapel, as conducted at present, has a definite place in the college curriculum. Under these canditions, one has to go whether chapel is attractive and interesting or not; and if the authorities really think, as they assuredly must, that they are giving the right kind of dose, they have no excuse for changing their prescription. On the other hand, since this desire for a more earthly diet comes from the student publication, it indicates at least a little dissatisfaction, which the powers that be can disregard or not depending on their confidence in the student's judgment...