Word: poisonal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debated ad infinitum and post-poned to next June for further debate the so-called "minorities question." 2) They applauded announcements by Germany's fat Dr. Stresemann and Poland's lean August Zaleski that these nations are now "ready" to ratify the international protocol prohibiting employment of poison gas and bacteria as war weapons...
...President General Plutarco Elias Calles, to do battle with the rebels in Durango, Chihuahua and Sonora. As bombing planes roared into the zenith, as President Herbert Clark Hoover hastened the despatch of 10,000 Enfield rifles and multitudinous rounds of ammunition to the Mexican government, as despatches announced that poison gas would be used, God Mexitl must have ruefully reflected that his own symbolic arms are a shield made of reeds tufted with eagle's down, and a handful of spears, each with an eagle's tuft. The peculiar insignia of his godhead, the so-called "stellar mask" resembles only...
Detectives from Scotland Yard being perennial favorites, Author George Dilnot catalogs their technique; and includes, gratuitously, a murder, escape, poison, embezzlement, beautiful heroine, mad villain ?all in The Black Ace (Houghton-Mifflin...
...lifeboat drew near the Florida. The bow oar translated Officer Manning's commands to the derelict crew. The lifeboat stood off 50 feet, imperiled by wash from the listing vessel, and took off 32 men, with Capt. Favaloro last. Some of the men had prepared knives and poison to commit suicide. They were starved, half-naked, half-crazy. Capt. Fried and Officer Manning got them all aboard the America, landed them in Manhattan...
...albuminous substance, whose chemical composition is about five to 12 times as complex as the tetanus toxin. These dried venoms, he explained, are sent to the central institute, are dissolved in brine and glycerine and the solution is injected into horses in successive increments. The reaction of this poison with the cells of the horse produces antibodies. After a lapse of time the horse is bled and the serum proteins are separated and purified. When this serum is injected into a person suffering from snake-bite it goes to the poison because it has a peculiar affinity for it. Then...