Word: moisteners
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...long tube from the oxygen tank through the cover and almost to the bottom of the jar. The other three tubes were stuck just far enough through to take the oxygen as it came off the water's surface. Function of the water was to moisten the sharp oxygen which might otherwise irritate the delicate mucous membranes of the babies' throats...
...ingredient is Epsom salt (magnesium sulphate), the common medicine cabinet drug ordinarily used for purging, poulticing, reducing. The formula which the discoverers, Mr. & Mrs. Hubert W. Frings of the University of Oklahoma, recommended contains bran (60% to 65%), molasses (15%), Epsom salt (20% to 25%), and enough water to moisten. This formula, they say, ''seems to be just as effective as the [common] 5% arsenic bait, it is cheaper, and it is absolutely harmless to humans, cattle, swine and poultry or other birds." The poison is scattered among the vegetation...
...knew it. But do you suppose Tom was happy? Not a bit of it. Something was lacking. What that something was, Tom was not quite smart enough to figure out. But he felt the need of a change, and decided to get away from it all, moisten the lips and start afresh...
...keep the sound-tight rooms from being stuffy, NBC installed an air-conditioning plant consisting of 64 independent units. In an hour these machines suck in 20,000,000 cu. ft. of Manhattan air, dry or moisten it, warm or cool it as required, feed it through the studios so fast that a complete change of air is effected every eight minutes...
...Greene has offered to trap enough clams to feed the host and there will be no difficulty in securing enough spigots to moisten the throstles of the Great Unslacked. Here is what the Cimmittee want you to clip out and paste in wour...