Word: odorless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protozoan covered with hairlike flagella). Explorer William Beebe, who fired the shotgun, indicates this chain of life with his dissecting knife, philosophizing as he studies Nature in the steaming jungle of British Guiana. Other chapters-creeping, rustling, whirring, crashing, oozing with live things-centre on an inverted, deaf, lethargic, odorless, whistling sloth; the falling of jungle leaves; beachcombing at midnight; men and monkeys; a mangrove tree. His enthusiasm and patness often cast doubt upon Author Beebe's scientific veracity, but insure excellent reading. The style, vivid and highly charged with verbs and adjectives as exotic as the boat-billed...
...near the Speaker's platform in such a position that they could be seen by the whole House. When the House did see them, it cheered and hooted with mirth. According to the French chemist, Dr. Pierre Louis Rehm, Germany has a new poison gas. It is colorless, odorless, can penetrate a gas mask, is one of the deadliest known to science. It embodies carbon monoxide. Dr. Heinrich Brauns, Minister of Labor, speaking before an audience of German Catholics in Berlin, said that there were 5,000,000 unemployed persons in Germany and 15,000,000 persons dependent...
Intarvin, when eaten, is absorbed to the extent of 90% and is then broken down, but does not yield the substances derived from butyric and other acids which are contributing causes of diabetes. It is creamy white, odorless, melts at body temperature, has little taste. It can be eaten straight or in salads, buttermilk or bread. It satisfies the craving of diabetics for fatty foods. After preliminary experiments on animals, intarvin was tried on more than two dozen patients at Beth Israel Hospital, where Dr. Kahn is director of laboratories and attending physician for diseases of metabolism. It alleviated...
...come upon civilization if there should be another war. He described Lewiside, a new gas, invented by Professor Lewis of Northwestern University. Lewiside, differing from the gases which were used in the past war, is heavier than air. It also differs from them in that it is colorless and odorless, giving no warning of its presence. It kills by contact and will make sterile any ground with which it comes in contact...