Word: puree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such layers molecules all stand on end, lined up in the same direction; that layers any number of molecules thick could be built up on a pane of glass by repeatedly dipping it in water covered with a monomolecular film. All this, however, came under the head of "pure-science" research...
Before the old Pure Food & Drugs Act was passed in 1906, the label on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound proclaimed the tonic "A Sure Cure for Prolapsus Uteri or Falling of the Womb, and . . . All Weaknesses of the Generative Organs of Either Sex." Since 1906 the label has been modified several times to sidestep run-ins with Federal authorities...
Last week a flashy Manhattan haberdasher, Marty Walker, had the "honor and distinction" of advertising that his was "the first concern in the entire world privileged to present MEN'S HEAVY-WEIGHT*OVERCOATS of the world's most precious fabric, 100% PURE STROOCK VICUÑA CLOTH." Broadway crowds stopped to gape at the model coat which 60 vicuñas died to make. One man actually ordered a coat. Price...
...easily controlled. Dr. Harold Edwin Himwich and associates of Albany Medical College reported in the Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine that they had devised a new, safer method for depriving the brain of oxygen. They simply attached a five-quart breathing bag filled with pure oxygen to the patient's face, gradually ran out the oxygen and substituted nitrogen. The patient went into convulsions, but when the physicians thought the symptoms had reached a crucial point, they reintroduced pure oxygen into the mask. Five schizophrenic patients have received nitrogen treatment, said the doctors...
...complete visibility has attracted popular attention, and has brought him official recognition, in the shape of an appointment as consultant in English poetry for The Library of Congress. His latest book of rousing, rhythmical lyrics, Riders at the Gate (Macmillan, $1.75), his eighth and his best, is a simon-pure example of poetical swaggering...