Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...water is always cold and sometimes she has a piece of soap, sometimes she uses a smooth rock, with which she rubs her entire body...
...abuse of the stomach. Early and abrupt weaning is a frequent cause of mammary cancer. Altogether, these and other cancers are the result of known causes and can be prevented."-James Ewing of Manhattan. He added that no effective antiseptic has been discovered. He recommended gargling with plain soap and water...
...home of one John Bull Shoe. Commonwealth College, founded three years ago by Laborites in a virgin dip of the Ozarks, near Mena, Ark., swung into action with two characteristic announcements: 1) Tuition, food, books, lodging and laundry came to $100 for the year, not including soap, tooth paste and pencils; and, "the school body dresses plainly and simply." 2) The College needed, badly, a new dictionary. Meeting at Little Rock, the American Legion of Arkansas was aroused by a vigilant patriot, to whom Commonwealth's continued vigor could mean but one thing, with news that the College...
...Washington politicos tittered at the latest Senatorial joke. Blatherskite Coleman Blease had been elected South Carolina's Democratic Senator, in itself funny; and his soap-box campaign oratory had unseated Blatherskite Senator Nathaniel Barksdale Dial then in office. The joke was that Senator Dial was displaying cry-babyish tendencies over his defeat, was, in the language of the street, "bellyaching" around the Senate and vexing Democrats (particularly the unfortunately irrepressible Pat Harrison) by eulogizing President Coolidge* and voting Republican on close issues. Finally Senator Dial dolefully turned over his seat to the succeeding gentleman from South Carolina, returned home...
Among other things that the chemists were to do was the presentation of a gold award to Professor Sabatier of the University of Toulouse, Nobel prizewinner in 1912, who led the French delegation. The award was to be supplied by the Procter & Gamble Co. (Ivory Soap) of Cincinnati whose debt to Professor Sabatier is great, he having perfected a catalytic effect with nickel that permits hydrogen to be added to many compounds, "especially the oils," whence soap of a famed fractional purity is manufactured...