Word: mustard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief glories of the old Commonwealth of Massachusetts is this ancient college of Harvard, which from a small beginning as it were a mustard seed, has grown until it has become one of the greatest of all plants. In all the honored record of this country there is nothing more honorable than the history of this institution. As in Virginia, so in Massachusetts, the college was indeed the inspiration and nurse of idealism. Take the signers of the Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts--all five were graduates of Harvard...
...chief of the Defense Section of its Research Division he directed the development of chemical absorbents to be used in gas masks, a task of immense importance and difficulty. Under his immediate direction were also developed a salve to be used on the body as a protection against mustard gas, and a gas mask which could be used in submarines to protect men against carbon monoxide gas. Since last June he has been in charge of the research work of the nitrates division of the Ordnance Department, and in this position has been studying the task of putting the large...