Word: poisoner
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...proper ventilation of recitation rooms has by this time passed from the status of a trite subject to that of a classic one. Nevertheless, we shall not repeat the remark that a college which provides instruction in chemistry, physiology, and hygiene, and which also compels its students to breathe poison for several hours a day, may perhaps, with some show of reason, he accused of inconsistency. . . .We shall not suggest that some means of ventilation other than by the windows might be provided: nor shall we hint that the students and instructors who regulate the temperature and salubrity...
...though poison sumac grew in the empty pastures...
From the snake house his poison is shipped to the Harvard laboratory, and thence to Brazil, where the Brazilian government runs a large serum plant. Long years of study have developed a method of procuring serum by injecting minute quantities of the poison of a given species into a horse. Gradually, the dos s are increased, until its blood begins to manufacture an antidote to this special poison and eventually becomes immune to it. From the blood of the horse the antidote is extracted, and this in turn is preserved and sent to hospitals so that it may be used...
...does the author of the "Tales". In one way, it is true, Fitzgerald is not entirely to blame: he is essentially the product of his age--the "jazz age" if you will--and was as inevitable, in some form or other, as the mediaeval Black Death or the modern poison gas. A spirit that is professedly superficial and light-headed must perforce give birth to its literary parallel; and F. S. F., with his creed of excitement for excitement's sake, is the outcome...
...European country", he continued, "is in the hands of one or two men and these men are directing the millions of people under their control towards a second great European War." Mr. Desmond predicted that this war will take place within 20 years, and that in it, aeropianes and poison gas will be the offensive weapons...