Word: mustards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mendel Medal as Catholic scientist-of-the-year for his researches on acetylene which led to the development of synthetic rubber (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Before the ceremony a newshawk questioned the famed priest on another outgrowth of his researches, lewisite, only war gas deadlier than mustard gas. Said Father Nieuwland...
...continuance of Sanctions would be folly. The face of the League has been so blistered by mustard gas that it is past saving...
...horribly burned by Italian mustard gas, was in bandages. Only a few days earlier a miracle had saved his life...
...most powerful and deadly of the gases now in use was perfected by President Conant during the war. At the beginning of 1917 he worked in Washington on a new method of producing mustard gas, and later did many experiments with a new type of gas known only as "G-34" in the War Department files...
With broad-shouldered Planter Ames, a patriarchal figure in mustard corduroy, at the head of the procession, the championship week began with a fast heat by Yankee Doodle Jack, and a hot favorite, the orange-spotted pointer, Doctor Blue Willing. The latter stayed in hand better than on two other championship occasions and, as a local sports writer put it, "he handled his birds like a Ziegfeld beauty handles a millionaire." Tips Manitoba Jake, the big, white-&-black pointer owned by Golfer Glenna Collett Vare (see p. 27), ran the next heat worthy of notice. He, too, had the morning...