Word: poison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marshal Badoglio. squinting at his staff maps, knew that no matter how it might pain the House of Lords (see col. 3), a forthright poison gas campaign was the quickest and cheapest way of breaking opposition in a country where every herdsman has a rifle. The gassing began...
Many syphilologists give their patients bichloride of mercury to drink, carefully watching that the poison does not destroy the stomach, intestines or kidneys. Such syphilologists believe that potable mercury destroys spirochetes more effectively than mercury injections. Reasoning by analogy, they ask pharmacologists to produce a potable bismuth like the drink Professor Hanzlik announced. In his potion, which 200 San Franciscans have found harmless, which 40 San Francisco syphilitics have found beneficial, the solution is sodium bismuthate; the solvent, a mixture of propylene glycol and a new substance called tri-iso-propanolamine...
Lead is the most common chemical poison causing abortion. Dr. Taussig found that chronic alcoholism may cause abortions, but "it is improbable that cigaret smoking even to excess can lead to" that termination of pregnancy. More boys are born alive than girls. More male fetuses are aborted than female fetuses. Some investigators believe that this preponderance of male conceptions over female conceptions is nature's way of compensating for the fact that unborn males are less sturdy than unborn females. Dr. Taussig scoffs at this theory of "genetic weakness" in males. Concerning male abortions he reasons that male fetuses...
...murder, therefore, put Governor Olson in something of a spot, whence he attempted to extricate himself by joining Liggett's widow in asking Attorney General Cummings to send Department of Justice agents into the State to investigate the crime. Attorney General Cummings, who once called Minneapolis a "poison spot of crime," prudently demurred...
...anonymous abuse, she thinks almost nothing of the threatening message that drops from the sleeve of her academic gown. But she remembers it again when a few months later she gets an urgent letter from the dean, begging her help. Shrewsbury College is being undermined by a mysterious poison-pen campaign, and the college morale is getting shaky. Harriet has not been long in residence when the outbreaks increase in violence. Fuses are blown, windows smashed, obscene decorations and threats are chalked on the conventual walls; a dummy is found hanging in the chapel. Unable to get to the bottom...