Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invisible smallness of the atom are remote from the things of everyday life. Scientists also go far from familiar things in the study of low temperatures. Hydrogen liquefies at 252.7° below zero Centigrade and helium liquefies at - 268.9°. Compared to such temperatures, the inside of an ice-cream freezer is a seething furnace. The utmost cold, absolute zero (zero on the Kelvin scale), comes out at - 273.13° on the arbitrary Centigrade scale (zero for the freezing point of water, 100 for the boiling point). Scientists have not quite chilled matter to absolute zero, and never expect...
...Hogs on ice are independent: 1) if dead, because they don't care; 2) if alive, because they are hypnotized by their immobility...
...citizens. Post-Repeal's more bizarre tastes run to such concoctions as orange gin, lemon gin and mint gin, products of London & Co., of Elizabeth, N. J., a distillery which has capitalized on the freak market. This year the company applied for a patent on "Liquorized Ice-Cream." As rich and thick as junket but tasting more like an Alexander cocktail, the mixture consists of 5% to 25% liquor (sloe gin, dry gin, rum, whiskey, cognac or Scotch...
London's general manager, Solomon W. Pitchenik, wrote New Jersey's Alcoholic Beverage Control Commissioner D. Frederick Burnett to ask what rules governed the sale of the eerie dessert. Last week. Commissioner Burnett promptly banned its manufacture and sale because "liquorized ice cream is attractive to children." But Distiller Pitchenik is not interested in the child market, still hopes to get his dish onto hotel and night-club menus, where it would be served in place of a cordial, act as a "combination of cocktail and dessert," contain all the elements of both "with the ingredients...
...mediums were out of practice. When the Temple went through its first crisis, a diphtheria epidemic, Father Swann ignored the advice of the spirit doctor and the spectral Association of Healthfulizers and cast out the Sore-Throat Devil by the up-to-date, scientific treatment of cracked ice...