Word: eater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drugstore pill-eater can ensue health by taking the entire list, but if he is to buy wisely he has much to learn of both chemistry and medicine. As with the patent medicines of a former day, the greatest harm is the waste of money...
...after the first run, she was ready. She was down the runway and off. Eddie Allen tucked up her legs and she whisked away from the field, slim, slick, slightly bent in her fore-and-aft line so that her nose drooped like an ant-eater's. An hour later she had landed at Muroc Lake and the Army Air Forces...
From these brief maxims young Washington was clearly a fussy eater. "Spit [not] forth the Stones of any fruit Pye," he warned. "Cleanse not your Teeth with the Table Cloth." Washington also barred spitting during meals ("except there's a Necessity for it") and getting rid of edibles by throwing them under the table...
...Neuwirth is also using the egg-culture method in an attempt to produce the world's first vaccine against trachoma, an infectious eye disease common throughout the Middle East; and he is trying to develop a bacteriophage ("bacteria-eater") solution to treat those already afflicted. Last month the Iranian Government gave Dr. Neuwirth its first scientific decoration...
...good a Guinea Pig as the best of them is Subsistence Lab's big (six-feet-two), roughhewn guiding genius, Lieut. Colonel Rohland A. Isker. A hearty but discriminating eater rather than a scientist, Colonel Isker built a solid reputation in the cavalry by always feeding his men the best there was. He went to the Q.M.C. Subsistence School in 1934, later became commanding officer of the laboratory. Not all his experiments have been successful. Tomato bread, for example, was a flop...