Word: poisonally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have the "slightest desire to go to heaven" nor fear of hell, there is no danger of his going to either place, but one thing is as certain as the law of gravitation, and that is, that he will "reap what he has sown" in an effort to poison the minds of untrained thinkers?especially the young. Again the publishers' "ad" is unethical in that it says, "Send no money in advance," but when the postman comes $2.60 must be dug up in a hurry. This word is written in a kindly spirit...
...Like the Communists who seek to overthrow all governments, Fascismo is endeavoring to instil that blighting philosophy among the people of every nation. Fascismo and communism have the same fangs and the same poison which it is intended to inject into the political life of our nation...
...rest hava become so firmly fixed in the dinner conversation of the land that the play will be easily understood. These peculiar phenomena are dealt with in words of one syllable. An event in the hero's youth bites deep into his consciousness, is discovered and the poison let off in the approved modern fashion at the last...
Before an audience of Plymouth women, the Viscountess Astor fulminated against submarines in general. Apropos of the disaster said she: "I would go around the world lecturing five times over if I thought I could do anything to persuade the nations of the world to abandon submarines and poison...
Bacteriophage. Dr. Philip Hadley of the University of Michigan told how he had found in sewage a poison that kills poisons-a bacteriophage, eater of germs. Just as the human body, when fatigued, creates protective white blood-corpuscles to fight off germs, so the veins of the earth, its rivers, tributaries, flowing streams, manufacture this mysterious prophylactic only when they are fouled. Dr. Hadley took it from the sewage-filled water of the Huron River, and declares that it can be procured from the sewage of any large city. It not only purifies the water but it may be used...