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There was one night when a socially prominent undergraduate had drowned his carefreeness with much potent liquid and was speeding merrily, if not somewhat like a May Pole dance along a suburban turnpike. Unluckily an innocent automobile blocked his way; he did not hit it hard, but hard enough to excite the driver, arouse hot words, and attract a state policeman who was parked nearby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...means as big as many another U. S. chemical company. "Salt" has plants at Natrona, Philadelphia, Wyandotte, Mich., and Tacoma, Wash., owns a controlling interest in Taylor Chemical Corp. of Penn Yan, N. Y. "Salt" sells germicides, liquid chlorine, acidproof cement, bleaching powders, lyes, numerous other chemicals, but makes no table salt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ice Stones | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...sewer," it came from the almost-ripened potato plants, lay so thick that in some places it was visible as a whitish cloud above them. Where it appeared, leaves turned first purplish-brown, then black; stems withered, so that they broke at the touch, oozing a pus-colored liquid; the potatoes, when dug, were soggy and black with putrescence, rank-smelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Air | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...only the human lungs but the bowels breathe. Dr. Dillon, a U. S. emigre practicing in Moscow, explained: "Air which has found access into the stomach and then into the intestines can be sucked into the blood. Especially it is true about oxygen which can dissolve in any liquid of the digestive tract. There is no impediment of anatomic character to such absorption of oxygen through the walls of the digestive tract, for the digestive tract embryologically comes from the same source as the respiratory tract. Comparative physiology presents indisputable proofs of a respiratory function of the digestive tract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: X-Rays in Chicago | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...spray effective in small children whose nostrils are too narrow to admit the tip of an atomizer. An extra amount of the protective solution is sprayed into the lower part of the child's nares. Then for a moment the child is held upside down, thus causing the liquid to flow against the nerves of smell which must be covered, if the virus of infantile paralysis is to be kept from invading the brain and spine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio and Lungs | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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