Word: staines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cautiously, like a colony of Patagonian crabs, they began to sidle ahead sideways. When Ortiz resigned, they joined his supporters in voting to refuse his resignation, thereby clearing his honor of any stain. At the same time they gained the cooperation of the Socialists in insisting that President Ortiz revise his Cabinet, last week forced his ministers to hand in their portfolios. By week's end their crablike progress had brought them to their goal. Ortiz handed over to Castillo authority to select a new Cabinet, which he promptly filled with six conservatives and only one nonconservative, a doff...
Steinkjer Stain...
This crystalline killer has been named "gramicidin" because its victims all belong to the large class of microbes which take the gentian violet and iodine stain developed by Hans Christian Joachim Gram of Denmark. Gramicidin protects mice against huge doses of virulent pneumococci and all the other blue-staining germs so far tested. Since the tubercle bacillus belongs to this group, it seems almost certain to succumb to gramicidin...
...hand-operated elevator was put into the Muscum about 40 years ago, and was said to be the oldest in Cambridge. Considerable stain was probably placed on the cogwheel when a one-and-a-half ton meteorite was carried up on the lift last summer, Muscum officials said...