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Alkalizers. "The blood of a healthy person is no more in need of 'alkalizing' . . . than the eyes need an eyewash to keep them moist; with the common cold or grippe and . . . constipation, there is no accumulation of acid. . . . Fatigue, a 'dark brown' taste, a foggy feeling, jitters or headache are not to the slightest extent caused by 'acids in the blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Home Companion | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Here is the House. Vag feels his body submerged in moist warmth, luscious warmth. Walt is there too, in slippers and pajamas. Vag puts on slippers and pajamas. Hot chocolate and cookies, Tchaikowsky's Fifth Symphony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/16/1940 | See Source »

...from being an enthusiastic inhabitant of fire, as the ancients believed, the salamander must be moist, dies if it is even thoroughly dried out. Though no fire-eater, the lizard-like little creature is, however, something of a devil. He secretes in his skin a milky poison which causes most of his potential enemies to leave him severely alone. This skin poison is thought to be harmless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Little Devil | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...like smacking a cantaloupe," said U. S. No. 1 Bobby Riggs, noisily objecting to the heaviness of the long-haired ball after it becomes grass-stained and moist. United States Lawn Tennis Association officials, ruefully watching their top-notchers eliminated in the early rounds, pondered using a special ball for future grass-court tournaments, retaining the fuzz ball for play on clay and concrete, where its heavy nap is no hindrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fuzz Ball | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Over 100,000 square-miles in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, gales raged up to 40, 50, even 80 m.p.h. Relatively moist and verdant this year in its south west section, protected by terracing and furrow farming, the Bowl got nothing like its 1935 dusting. But farmers sneezed and grew red-eyed, Oklahoma City motorists needed headlights at midday, in some parts of Oklahoma visibility shrank to 100 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Bowl Dusted | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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