Word: drug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ibsen, of course, is Northfield's patron literary saint. The man in the drug store or the girl who serves you dinner can tell you about him. Indeed, some friends of mine who live there entertained one night at dinner and, of course, discussed Ibsen. The Wild Duck formed a part of the discussion and one of the guests in particular expounded his idea of its meaning...
...result is bound to be another fine grape crop, more unneeded "vin ordinaire," still lower prices, and considerable bewilderment and worry in the French wine industry. U. S. tourists in France may help somewhat, yet this factor is unimportant. The 11% or less "vin ordinaire" is now a drug on the market; it now sells for 50 francs ($2.50) a hectolitre (about 105 quarts), against 66 last fall...
...working for a firm of dry-goods brokers. At 27 he was selling a line of druggists' goods. Conceiving the idea of cooperative buying and manufacturing, he induced 40 druggists to put $4,000 each in the project. At 50 he is head of the United Drug Co., doing a business of almost $1,000,000 a week with a group of 8,000 privately owned stores in the U. S., Canada, England and elsewhere, and with 190 stores owned outright by the Liggett companies. He did not get ahead without setbacks, however. In the panic...
...wandered to Robinson's drug store for a strawberry sundae. There sat freckle-faced young Teacher Scopes, in his blue shirt and hand-painted bow tie, grinning with bashful curiosity at passers-by ("like the Prince of Wales," said one fanciful reporter) and listening to his proud father, Thomas Scopes of Paducah, Ky., exclaim: "John was always an extraordinary boy." Father Scopes was proceeding to uncomplimentary remarks about Lawyer Bryan when the son interrupted...
...homeopath is a physician devoted to cure by drugs. The basic tenets of his healing are that each disease may be cured by a drug, that the proper drug is the one which administered to healthy persons produces symptoms similar to those of the disease, that only one remedy should be used for each disease, that the doses should be very small. Homeopathy is more than 125 years old. Some of its treatments have been taken over by the "regular school of medicine" (Allopathy), it is likewise the only one of the medical cults which receives any considerable recognition from...