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Word: formic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...your pen doesn't work, I have a supply of living fountain points that have a faculty of injecting formic acid which has a soothing property. I offer you 8,000,000 ants to distribute in troublemaking pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...found the milk drippings, scurried back to the ant hill with the tidings. When Mrs. Patrick returned from the tomato patch, the crib, the coverlet, Harold's head were a rusty-red quiver. The baby was unconscious. Doctors thought that he might recover from the ant-bite poison (formic acid). But the red ants, like the all-devouring soldier ants which terrorize tropical Asia, had nipped the sight from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ants Over Child | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

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