Word: saccharinity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Dr. Ira Remsen, 81, president emeritus of Johns Hopkins University, discoverer of saccharin, in Carmel, Calif...
...table, fenced with formal shirtfronts, candles shone on the sparkling glasses, on the dishes and dishes of food that succeeded one another. Savory food it was, nourishing, succulent; but on the little cards beside each place it was called by strange names-Borax, Benzoate, Coal Tar, Copper Sulfate, Saltpeter, Saccharin. Thus were those dishes named, each after a poison, out of sentiment. For, had it not been for Dr. Wiley, the names might have become the dishes, though they would have been called Bread, Jam, Sugar, Chocolate, out of sentiment. Each of the items on the menu of that feast...