Word: killed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canyon, Tex., Dr. C. A. Pierle analyzed the body of a man weighing 150 pounds. It contained-'enough water to wash a pair of blankets, enough iron to make a tenpenny nail, lime sufficient to whitewash a small chicken-coop, enough sulphur to kill the fleas of a good-sized dog.' All these elements, he estimated, can be purchased at a drugstore for 98c."- TIME...
...depraved poet once pointed out that all men kill the thing they love, some with a sword, some with a word. Last week Joseph Carson, Jr., who had loved knowledge but found more of it in the head of his friend than in his own, tried to kill knowledge with his fists, with a shoe, with a dressing gown and a milk bottle...
Milk submitted to the rays was pasteurized (rid of bacteria, including spores, which it ordinarily takes three heatings to kill) al- most instantaneously-but contracted an unpleasant flavor...
Drunks. At Utrecht, orderly Netherlandish city, P. M. v. Wulff-ten Palthe found that pure oxygen is a powerful antidote against the effects of alcohol. He gave rabbits enough alcohol to kill them, quickly brought them almost to normal with oxygen. Two delirium tremens cases he soothed at once by the same gas. Several tipplers whom he invited to his laboratory for a regulated carouse interrupted their toping with draughts at the oxygen tank, remained sober. If only he could make a "dead drunk" man or woman come out of a coma. . . . For nine months he sought a "dead drunk...
...take rides on the invisible droplets that each human exhales as he breathes. Whole colonies of them are ejected with sputum onto sidewalks, into street cars, in hotel lobbies. They are particularly thick in tenements, barracks, orphan asylums, workhouses, penitentiaries. But most people are able to resist them, to kill them as they grow...