Word: potion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norse God of Thunder, who downed every potion offered him at a gulp, until presented with a drinking horn connected magically with the ocean. Then he caused fluctuations in the tides...
...most appropriate thing for Mr. Smith to contribute to the cause of medical research. At present engaged in the accretion of wealth by promoting "Pepsodent," a dentifrice, Mr. Smith long ago made his fortune from a most beneficent bactericide which he called "Liquozone." This latter, a potion for internal consumption, consisted largely of a weak aqueous solution of sulphuric acid (about 9/10 of 1%) and sulphurous acid (3/10 of 1%). It was exploited as a cure for 26 specific diseases of the widest pos- sible range, as well as for "all diseases that begin with fever-all inflammations -all catarrh...
Additional nominations for any of the preceding offices may be made by petition. In the case of the vice-presidency, an individual may be nominated by a potion signed by 35 Union members. Aspirants to the Student Committee, however, may be nominated on the strength of the endorsement of 25 Union members. All petitions must be left in the office of the Graduate Secretary at the Union not later than April...
...which, if new, might cause as great a stir as that of Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings (see Page 16). For Queen Isolde has been given in marriage to King Mark; yet after a sip of a magic and non-Volstead potion she falls into the arms of Knight Tristan, and-they have an "affair...
Patently Harvard is in for a deluge. But what looks like a curse may yet prove a blessing. Even though the undergraduate body be forced to take to an ark, if the potion is as effective here as it has proved to be at Yale, football hopes for next year may soar higher than ever. And Mr. Gundelfinger is to be thanked on still another score. Every student who can persuade himself to read the pamphlet through may, by studying this excellent pathological case, become an embryo psychologist...