Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such are the cretins. But how few, suggests Dr. Berman, are aware of the transformation that has been wrought upon these wretches by modern Science. By furnishing the hormones, or vital gland secretion, in pill form, manufactured from the thyroid extract of animals, the village idiot has been reclaimed in thousands of cases. He (or she) rides on the trolley and subway beside you. He works at the next desk, exercises at the next machine, pours tea at any table, walks, talks, transacts, marries, yet is never detected unless somehow cut off, Antaeus-like, from the source of vitality. Cretins...
This spring the cold, wet weather has played havoc with many different lines of business. Would-be purveyors of Spring garments have had to swallow a bitter pill. Buyers of automobiles and automobile accessories have held back. The consumption of gasoline has been adversely affected. The latest victim of the wintry Spring has been the sugar trade. The producers of sugar have held large amounts of raw sugar in hopes of high prices, while merchants and refiners have held back in expectation of a drop in prices. The cold weather has perceptibly decreased the normal consumption of sugar...
...surface of a window pane or wall. Take a widemouthed bottle and place in it a tuft of cotton saturated with a small amount of "Carbona" cleaning fluid. Place the bottle quickly over the mosquito which will be soon overcome by the fumes. Then transfer it to a small pill box-between two layers of cotton." A pill box with several specimens may then be sent by mail without fear of injury to the mosquitoes...
...inexorable experts droned on, grinding out a plan for German Reparations. When the Anglo-Saxon bankers three weeks ago forced Poincaré to agree to accept the Dawes report, the tough, wiry little French Premier had to swallow a big, bitter pill. But when the swelling volume of anticipatory roars, groans and squeals arose from across the Rhine and when the very idea of such a plan gave gooseflesh to the goose-steppers, the French decided that the Dawes plan might not be such a bad thing after...
...Rose Raisa, Le Prophête for Charles Marshall, Werther for Mary Garden, will probably be added to Chicago operatic repertory next season. Also it is likely that Don Carlos will be mounted for Chaliapin, Gianni Schicchi for Galeffii; Pearl Fishers for Schipa, Lucrezia Borgia for Raisa, and Pilléas and Mélisande for Garden and Baklanoff...