Word: fluidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dutch, Jugoslavian and German girls are paying for not wanting or daring to have babies. Theirs is precisely the punishment that was inflicted upon several thousand U. S. citizens who, craving drink, drank Jamaica ginger extract (TIME, March 24, 1930 et seq.). The European girls took apiol, an oily fluid obtained from parsley flowers, as an abortifacient. Both the European apiol and the U. S. ginger extract had been adulterated by viciously shrewd manufacturers with a tricresyl phosphate, newly discovered organic chemical which destroys nerves in the spinal cord (TIME, July 28. 1930). First nerves to go are usually those...
...Girl. Appealing modulation of voice and manner, decorous softness of demeanor are Cinemactress Young's chief characteristics on the screen; she attributed them in part to her schooling in a Los Angeles convent. The fluffiness of her brown mop she attributes to her habit of shampooing it with cleaning fluid...
Long-wave radio signals spray out from the transmitters in undulations from 200 to 25,000 metres in length. They surge through & around obstacles or up against and down from the ionized Kennelly-heaviside layer of the stratosphere. Short radio waves are not so fluid. Like light waves, which are very much shorter, short radio waves travel in straight lines only...
...Terraplane." Asked Hudson Motor Co. in advertisements last week: ". . . Does a generation which planes on water and in the air want the same gliding swiftness, the same fluid smoothness in land transportation?" Hudson's answer was a new car called the Essex Terraplane, on which a mammoth sales drive is centred this week. In the lowest price bracket the Terraplane boasts unusually high power to weight ratio. To Arthur Kudner of Erwin, Wasey Advertising Agency goes credit for the car's name. It has six cylinders, body & chassis as one structural unit, rubber engine-mounting, instrument panel directly...
...caused considerable soiling of the abdominal contents, and water was used freely from a pitcher to cleanse the abdominal viscera. After all was over, we sent across the street for the steelyards belonging to a butcher in the Kensington market [Philadelphia]. The whole multilocular cystic mass with the accumulated fluids tipped the scales at 132 pounds. As soon as the weighing was completed, a nurse dumped everything down a privy well. The tub weighed 16 pounds, leaving a weight of 116 pounds (52.6 Kg.) for the tumor. It has occurred to me many times since writing that report in trying...