Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the House of Representatives gagged and gulped on the largest peacetime tax bill in U. S. history. For the first time the Congress was getting an unpalatable dose of the Depression as it affected Government finances...
...casually glancing through the pages the many statistics may detract from the attention of the book as something for light reading; surely it is a fairly Draconion dose of material that is presented here. And yet the work lies nearer to the reading category than to that of a historical dictionary...
...poison is any substance which, when taken into the body in a single dose of 15 grains or less, is injurious to health or dangerous to life. Legal definition in New York State is a drug which produces death in doses of 60 grains or less. A bichloride tablet should not contain more than 8 grains of the poison...
...legend, not unkind, was merely a paraphrase of able Dr. Walter Freeman's recommendation of oxygen to clear the wits of dementia praecox patients. In the present circumstances, TIME'S Medicine Editor will take the dose...
...giving the Union Central Executive Committee a good dose of 1932, Stalin's spokesman worked the assembly up to an appropriate pitch of optimism. But he also admitted 1931 gaps in the Five-Year Plan, gaps which hundreds of delegates knew to exist in the places from which they came. Neither Russia's transport system, nor her production of steel, iron or coal, nor the general productivity of labor in Soviet factories, admitted Premier Molotov, have fulfilled the 1931 schedules of the Five-Year Plan...