Word: drank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come, and it did, when Mr. Green would receive a jolt. A Baptist who never smoked or drank, he has lately begun to take a dry Martini or two before dinner, a definite concession to good fellowship with newshawks, few of whom are teetotalers. After resolutely refusing for 13 years to let any one take press relations out of his stiffening fingers, last August he hired a new press agent-Philip Pearl, an experienced reporter with a wide acquaintance among Washington correspondents...
...have been quick to see that, with two kinds of hydrogen atoms as distinct as red and green, a neat method was available for tracing the course of hydrogen-bearing compounds in body processes. Scientists in Germany have already found by this means that half the water which they drank stayed in their bodies nine days, although some was excreted...
...brilliant showing. Possessed of great personal grace, gentle, straightforward, courageous, scholarly, witty, accomplished at tennis, dancing, horsemanship, his only imperfection appears not yet to have been discovered. Traveling abroad between the ages of 17 and 20, young Sidney captivated royalty, diplomats, scholars; the only criticism voiced was that he drank too much water, ate too much fresh fruit. In Paris, as guest of Francis Walsingham (later head of England's unexampled secret service, and Philip's future father-in-law) Philip witnessed the slaughter of St. Bartholomew's Day, conceived for Spain and the Papacy the only...
...harmless : the injection of a small quantity of tuberculin, made from the bacteria of tuberculosis, under the animal's skin. If she had the slightest trace of the disease, the cow would develop fever, and be killed as a menace to other cows and to children who drank her milk. Since the Gibsons neither permitted their cows to herd with other cows nor sold their milk, Lawyer Gibson sturdily stood on his legal right not to have his cows tested...
...tottery, they stumbled from their plane, having covered about 5,288 miles in 63 hr., 17 min.-second longest flight in history* and one of the most important in charting an uncharted airway. The trio dragged themselves to the home of Brigadier General George C. Marshall, field commandant, drank his cognac, gobbled his breakfast, used his razor, then fell into his beds while the world applauded...