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Developments later proved that the 406 sewage potions were combining to form a miraculous elixir. A love-sick Cambridge maiden unrequited in her passion drank a fifth of iodine and then flung herself into the Charles River to wind things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charles River Tonic Packs Pickup | 7/11/1947 | See Source »

Just what the spirit is that seizes the Radcliffe Idler twice a year and moves it to the good taste and good sense that characterize its current production is something that has not yet been determined. If it ever is defined, someone should pass the elixir to Harvard's own embattled dramatic groups with a hope for like physic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/13/1946 | See Source »

Harrumphed disappointed Howard Smith: "A great demonstration of democracy at work. . . . The man who cannot drink the dregs of defeat is not entitled to quaff the elixir of victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Democracy at Work | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...strafed his Ago Bay factory. But he still had half a million oysters in the bay, a fortune in pearls in boot boxes around his home. He set up a pill factory next to his idle plant, began grinding low-grade pearls and oyster shells into powder for an elixir (Mikimoto Pearlcalc) to give energy and long life, sold it to the Japanese Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Pearls for Everyone | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Spleen Serum. The serum is extracted from the blood of horses which have been injected with spleen cells and bone marrow from young, healthy persons who have died by accident. "It is not an elixir of long life," insisted Bogomolets last week, "but something that fights the enemies of longer life-cancer and high blood pressure." (It is too potent for some people, and Dr. Bogomolets himself is one of those who cannot be treated: his heart is too weak for an ACS fillip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bogomolets & the Longer Life | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

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