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...gargling with a cheap deodorant like chloramine. Reason for Dr. Haggard's confidence: He had been ''able to remove quickly from the skin all trace of the odor from the discharge of a skunk (accidentally received) with the use of a strong suspension of chlorinated lime in water...
...winter of 1925, Father Nieuwland read a paper on the formation of divinyl acetylene from acetylene and cuprous ammonium chloride. Du Font's Dr. Elmer K. Bolton was there, suspected that if the monovinyl could be similarly produced, artificial rubber was at hand. Acetylene, from common coke and lime, is cheap...
Most gypsum, however, is calcined by dehydrating with heat. With 75% of its moisture removed, gypsum becomes plaster of Paris.* And mixed with sand, hair, wood fibre, lime or other materials, calcined gypsum is just plain plaster...
...tastiness, is supplied. From the table d'hote and a la carte a suitable "piece de resistance" can be selected. Fillers and vegetables abound in great number, and to satisfy the thirst of the caniues, there is a large choice of beverages, ranging from goat's milk to lime water...
...released within 200 yd. of the game, restrained from eating their prey, when they have killed it, by being offered hot blood in a long-handled ladle. On an African hunting jaunt, Woolworth Donahue caught his cheetah when it was three months old, cured it of rickets by lime injections in its spine. By the time the cheetah recovered, it had developed such a fondness for its owner that Woolworth Donahue brought it back to the U. S. When he told his friends that he fed it on raw ducks, Publisher Warner got the idea of teaching the cheetah...