Word: poisonally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From near Concordia, Kan., Walter Cyr, young farmer, vanished last week. After three days searchers found him atop a straw stack. Dreading capture, he gulped down poison. Purged by a physician, he explained that he had been so pestered by a life insurance agent that suicide had seemed attractive. . . . The pestiferousness of such agents- porch-climbers, telephoners, buttonholers. classmates-may soon become a matter for the attention of Citizen Calvin Coolidge. Last week he accepted nomination to New York Life Insurance Co.'s board of directors and assignment to the agency committee where he will specialize in "human contacts...
...York State Legislature this year refused to pass a prohibition enforcement act. Last week it did, however, enact a law to protect its citizens from the ravages of wood (methyl) alcohol. A 'legger selling this poison as a beverage will go to jail for one year the first time, for two to five years thereafter. Now to stay within the State law, New York 'leggers must deal strictly in the kind of alcohol (ethyl) prohibited...
...Vaccine (in the special sense) contains dead or weakened bacteria which stimulate the blood to kill active germs. Scrum is the fluid of immune blood obtained after coagulation. It contains antitoxins which counteract the poison produced by a specific bacterium. The three terms are often loosely used as equivalents...
...Denatured alcohol is made by adding to grain alcohol some substance which renders it unfit to drink. The denaturent is not always a poison (TIME, Nov. 26, Letters...
...recently pulled out of her hangar at Howden, Yorkshire, was revealed last week. Rats, less cunning than those which infest but do not destroy surface ships, had invaded the hangar and threatened to eat the R-100's fabric. While the airship was safely out of doors, poison killed scores and scores of the rats...