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Word: sodaed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperfectly understood, death by bee sting is thought due to a special poison secreted by particular insects, possibly diseased. Apisination should be treated by gently removing the stinger, washing the wound with a weak solution of ammonia or soda, applying antiseptic. Bleeding should be encouraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Boston Bees | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...have no special rule. Stanford severely provides that "the possession, transportation or use of intoxicating liquors ... in the university shall be grounds for expulsion." Perhaps the most lenient administration is Harvard's. Students may not only drink what & when they like, but they may charge cracked ice and soda water on their term bills. Princeton men are not allowed to drink in their rooms, and Princeton's eating clubs have a gentleman's agreement with the administration not to serve liquor. Yalemen are not supposed to drink in their rooms, but many Yale clubs and fraternity houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Penn Drinkers | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Sales of drugs comprise 55% of Walgreen Co. business, but drugs to Walgreen mean not only prescriptions and patent medicines but all of more than 13,000 items not sold at cigar counters and soda fountains, including sunsuits, liquor, radios, alarm clocks, golf balls. Prescriptions account for only 2½ of total sales, proprietary medicines 30%. Like every other chain store, Walgreen favors its own brands.- However, a customer asking for a nationally-advertised product always gets it, usually at a lower price than anywhere else in the neighborhood. Motto of the 20th-century general store: "You're always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Drugstore Doings | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...Walgreen Co.'s new financing will go to retire 40,837 shares of the present 6½% preferred stock, the rest for 40 new stores scattered all over the U. S. Scheduled for opening this summer in Miami is a five story Walgreen drugstore with three stories of soda fountain & eating facilities which will be Walgreen's biggest and best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Drugstore Doings | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...oxidized gas) through the lungs. This causes trouble unless the blood contains enough alkaline substances to neutralize the acid. Oranges, grapefruit and lemons alkalinize the blood in a natural way. So do certain mineral waters. But none, according to Berlin's Professor Dennig, can compare with baking soda in simplicity of dosage or directness of effect. The dose he gives was not stated in last week's dispatches to the U. S. Trainers of U. S. athletes seldom dose their men with baking soda. When they do they give from one teaspoonful to one tablespoonful. This they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bicarbonated Energy | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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