Word: pollens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...composition is isoprene. The organic chemist can make isoprene from such common stuffs as turpentine, petroleum, starch, coal tar or acetylene. News of goldenrod as a likely rubber source gave the casual daily press opportunity to picture farmers sneezing as they harvested the autumn-gorgeous weed. But goldenrod pollen is one of the lesser causes of hayfever. Ragweed, more widespread, is the chief cause...
...vied for attention. Outstanding among the popular shows was the new cure for hay fever. Like a kitchen stove it looked, with a pipe leading out through a fake window. Fresh air enters the pipe, is drawn into the body of the contrivance where it is purified of all pollen, and is then released into the room for respiratory purposes. Not much protection on a country ramble, but a great relief to the cityfolk...
...faces. There were puddles of them under many other pictures: Italian Antonio Donghi's study of three enigmatic figures, called "Carnival," which received first honorable mention; "Two Figures," languid, graceful girls painted by Bernard Karfiol of Manhattan, honorable mention. Then there were the "Calla Lillies" almost sticky with pollen as they poked stiffly from a vase, which brought Max Pechstein of Germany the $500 prize offered by the Allegheny County Garden Club...
Sirs: "As everyone knows" (except "one" gallomaniac on your staff) some kinds of pollen, when inhaled, produce in pollen-sensi-TIME, July 25, 1927 tive persons an inflammation of the respiratory mucous membranes, variously known catarrh, as etc., and "hay-fever" altogether rose-cold" distinct from "summer" "strawberry-rash" which is a skin eruption, caused by eating strawberries. Obviously the last-mentioned malady has no connection with pollen. A few pollen grains may accidentally be present, but strawberries are not inhaled ; not even by French gourmets.* Pollen in plants corresponds to semen in animals, and is produced only...
...strawberries were eaten by Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France. As everyone knows some strawberries have a pollen which can produce on certain pollen-sensitive persons an irritating rash. Soon such a rash broke out upon M. Briand. Impetuous, he scratched. The rash spread, attacked the patient's eyelids, caused them to swell, to close one eye, nearly to close the other...