Word: litmus
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...litmus paper test for Mort...
Last month 350 graduate students from 26 assorted Italian universities arrived in the U. S. for a grand sightseeing and goodwill tour of U. S. colleges. Before they sailed back to Italy last week, they had visited no less than 35 campuses and provided the country with an interesting litmus-paper test on the political and educational ideas of Benito Mussolini...
...sanatorium in Shelton, Conn, one evening last week Dr. Maher told 1,800 attentive physicians what he had been doing to some tubercle bacilli. Culturing them in a sterile glycerin broth, he had added some sterile litmus milk, put the flask in a cupboard at room temperature. The deadly, rod-shaped bacilli slowly disappeared, transmuted into round-shaped bacteria called cocci and diplococci. These bacteria, he explained, produce an acid which destroys their progenitors...
...Come to this field, my colleagues." cried he, "but bring with you, besides flasks of sterile glycerin broth and sterile litmus milk, much patience and an open mind...
...litmus was red indeed. The Almirante Gran's officers stopped saluting and arrested little Leguia. Back in Callao harbor, a U. S. physician, Dr. McCormack, visited the sick man three times, announced that contrary to current rumor the patient was "neither dead nor dying." The Junta's President Sanchez Cerro thundered that "Tyrant" Leguia "must be made to account for his acts," ordered Augusto Leguia and son Juan imprisoned in the island fortress of San Lorenzo, bastille of Peru's political prisoners. Peruvians thrilled at a typically Latin touch: jailer-to-be of ex-President Leguia, commander of the guard...