Word: icebox
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...discovery was made accidentally, in almost the same way as Dr. Alexander Fleming's finding of penicillin. The Buffalo researchers noticed a green fungus growing on a culture of tubercle bacilli stored in an icebox. The mold seemed to have an affinity for the tubercle germ; it did not grow well in any other medium. It produced a substance (not penicillin, which has been ineffective against tuberculosis) that checked the growth of tubercle bacilli. A preparation from the mold neutralized tuberculin in two hours...
...Astor St. take care of itself. Our ambition is to be the Henry Ford of the refrigerator business." He has set up an "educational department" to train icemen to make friends with women. They should help them with their housework, should show them where to put things in the icebox to get full benefit from the ice. He wants all his icemen to be like one he knows in St. Louis, who in wintertime puts on several sweaters instead of an overcoat so his customers will not decide it is getting too cold...
...know, 'sfunny how good that last 'poon was. Unuzual, y'might say. 'Nother funny thing izzat it looked familiar. Never seen a 'poon that looked so familiar. Most of 'em y' never knew, or ever wanted to know, and y' leave 'em in th' icebox 'till they cool off a bit and lose dat smell y' can always tell an honest 'poon...
...School of Medicine and set to work on rats. To make her glue, she took some heart's blood from the rat to be grafted, mixed it with heparin to 'keep it from clotting, separated the cells from the blood plasma, put the plasma in the icebox. She shook the cells up with a special salt solution, separated the salty liquid and kept it, threw the cells away. She calls the salty fluid her "extract." The plasma plus the extract constitutes her glue...
...ranch to inspect his 200 white-faced cattle. Sam's favorite spot is the one-story ranch house, nestled in a grove of oak trees. Here is no telephone, no mail delivery; only a yawning fireplace, walnut beds, and electric stove for steak broiling and an old-fashioned icebox, usually filled with watermelons. Here, on the hot summer afternoons, Sam Rayburn lolls around, often in his shorts, letting the sweat roll down his bald head. Or fie inspects the solid fence-posts hewed out of bois d'arc (pronounced, in Texas, bo-dark), or sits popping huge chunks...