Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Investigators reported that the doctor's treatment for all cases, from ulcers to neuroses, was the same: several hundred patients gathered three times a week at his clinic, lined up before a "cocktail window," received a brownish liquid in a paper cup. The mixture was called A.T.O.P., for reasons unknown, and contained the powerful drugs chloral hydrate, bromides, digitalis. After drinking this potion (which often made them giddy, set them a-warbling), patients proceeded in line to "treatment" by Dr. Cowles. New patients were examined and interviewed by two of Dr. Cowles's non-medico assistants. Placing...
Alternating with the Indians every year, the Ski Club acts as week-end host this year, but it will be the Hanoverians who throw the festive pre-game party and liquid bouts in the ski Cabin Saturday night...
...colored glass he wants in that particular place. The cartoon is then cut up like a picture puzzle. Assistants cut out pieces of glass from these patterns and trace on them the remaining lines of Nicolas' drawing. Then the various colored pieces are reassembled and glued with liquid wax to a large, trans parent plate-glass pane...
...soft-eyed, soft-voiced people of Madagascar speak a liquid language in which there is no word for time. Under French administration, however, most of the Malagasy (as ethnologists call them) have had a few years' schooling. Some have even taken posts in the Colonial Government and learned the European world view. They know what time is. and how fast it can run. Last week they wondered how Madagascar fitted into the Axis time scheme...
...this current Rabinowitch arranged a simple device. "If now two metal electrodes are immersed in such a solution," he explained last week, "and if the liquid around one electrode is illuminated and the other is kept dark, the system becomes a galvanic cell in which chemical energy, formed by the conversion of light, is itself immediately converted into electrical energy." Galvanic cells and batteries-usually making current from the slow dissolving of zinc in sulfuric acid-are not uncommon, but Rabinowitch's is unique in that it will never wear...