Word: liquids
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rigoletto and in Covent Garden (London) in 1888, when she sang the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor which always remained her favorite role. In 1893, she appeared at La Scala, Milan, and made her first visit to the U. S. Then began her brilliant career ; her "liquid voice" became known in every opera house in the world, in Germany, Austria, Spain, England, Holland, France. She made many visits...
Rural banks are first to benefit. Old loans frozen back in 1921 and 1922 are gradually being paid off. Indeed, bankers predict that small local banks are sufficiently supplied with liquid funds to finance the movement of the current crop without recourse to New York, Chicago and other surplus money centres to the same extent that has been necessary in recent years...
...cure. It is made by injecting pneumonia germs (called pneumococci) into the blood of a horse. The horse then develops in his blood a substance which aids in destroying or digesting these germs. This substance-the so-called "antibody"-is known to be carried in the serum, or "clear liquid" of the blood. The remedial method in using the "horse serum" was to inject a large quantity of highly diluted serum into the human patient. This serum generally brought along with it chills, fever and the so-called "serum sickness." It usually caused violent reactions; many physicians discarded...
Hoof-and-mouth disease is a fever occurring chiefly among cattle, sheep and goats, characterized by the appearance of an eruption of vesicles on the mucous membranes of the mouth, the udder, or the delicate skin between the hoofs. When the vesicles break, a contagious liquid runs out, transmitting the disease from animal to animal. Man may contract it from intermediary objects, from direct contact with the infected animals, or from their milk. The disease often occurs among milkers and handlers of cattle. It is mild and not fatal...
...astute German industrialists like Stinnes and Wolff have pumped their money out of Germany while marks were falling; now that marks are fairly stable, some of it is being pumped back into Germany again by the same means. For practical purposes, the management of much of Germany's liquid capital has been transferred to Amsterdam and other Dutch centres. Thence, German imports and industries are daily being financed, while various international commissions seek German capital in order to exact their reparation demands...