Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what tantrums are. Actors, actresses, politicians and babies occasionally have them. ... I called in my personal physician, Dr. Bynacker, a horse doctor, and he told me it was practically the same thing as 'running fits' in dogs and caused in the same way. . . . Then it was the sunlight of understanding flooded my soul, and I knew exactly what caused Bilbo's tantrums. I remembered, as you remember, that he was living on a diet of sardines and crackers and cheese until we elected him to the Senate with a salary of $10,000 a year and immediately...
...fast scientific stride Biologist William Firth Wells, industrious instructor of sanitary science at the Harvard School of Public Health, has made oyster eggs germinate artificially and by means of artificial sunlight made germs vanish from thin air. Last week after working persistently against smaller & smaller forms of life, Biologist Wells was able to announce that by means of ultraviolet light he destroys the minuscule cause of influenza as it floats...
...means of this big contraption he has proved many bacteriologic things which others have surmised-e. g., that germs actually float in air; that sunlight and artificial sunlight kill floating germs...
...Cleveland's three newspapers, was elected Mayor. Meantime, a little group of public-spirited citizens had been thinking that the 100th anniversary of Cleveland's incorporation as a city offered a good chance for some kind of municipal exhibitionism which would put Cleveland back into the national sunlight. Having had the inspiration, they turned for action to a onetime Clevelander named Lincoln Griffith Dickey...
...larvae look like chestnut worms, eat furs, feathers and wool, spin translucent tubes in which they spend most of their time. They also spin webs on their feeding grounds, and, finally, cocoons from which the moths emerge. They may be inactivated by naphthalene in flakes or moth balls, sunlight, air, cedar chests, mothproof paper bags, temperatures below 40°. Under the Federal Insecticide Act it is a crime to sell (in interstate commerce) anti-moth products which do not live up to their claims. Last month the Food & Drug Administration had fines imposed on a Chicago chemical company for shipping...