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Word: lye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...lye downe and bleede awhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: By a Hair | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Juarez school, of which he is also principal) as more than just teaching boys & girls to read & write. One of the extracurricular activities Joe started as soon as he realized that the cost of soap was largely responsible for the grimy looks of his students: practical soapmaking, out of lye and cooking fat brought from home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tonic & Telescopes | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...clue to a mystery that has puzzled ulcer specialists-why do four times as many men as women have ulcers? Examining the stomach of a 21-year-old Negro girl through a surgical hole in the stomach wall (made for feeding the patient after she had accidentally swallowed some lye), Drs. Russell J. Crider and Shepard M. Walker of Washington University found that the girl's stomach was quieter and secreted less gastric juice when she was angry or upset than when she was in normally good spirits. This is just the reverse of the tightened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Too Many Operations? | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...bucket of hot lye solution to Mr. Johnson for the wonderful gangster indoctrination he has given American youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Terminating a long period of happy obscurity, the Society for the Preservation of the Species hits the airwaves tonight at 9:30 over WRCN. "The program will be humorous," said Theodore B. Turner '49, Digger Lye, tersely last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Society Takes Ether Tonight in Struggle To Preserve Species | 5/8/1947 | See Source »

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