Word: teaspoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's Lancet Dr. Meulengracht revealed the answer to this medical mystery. The patient was a "hypochondriac," he said, "and obsessed by his evacuations." Every morning for 35 years he had taken one teaspoon of Carlsbad salts as a laxative. Carlsbad salts "are mainly composed of sodium sulfate and sodium bicarbonate, and presumably a certain amount of calcium of the food was transformed in the intestine into insoluble calcium sulfate which was then evacuated." The result was "a calcium deficiency of the skeletal system." When the patient was deprived of Carlsbad salts his disease was checked. Although still...
...opossum, is the lowest marsupial of all. Its young, born after a gestation of about 13 days, are only one-half inch long at birth, without fully-developed hind legs, sans eyes, sans ears or reflexes. A litter of 18 weighs about 1/15 oz., fits easily into an ordinary teaspoon (see cut). Because the opossum is born at such an early stage in its development it makes glad the hearts of embryologists...
Federal Cold Treatment No. 2: two aspirin tablets, a teaspoon of baking soda, a dash of aromatic spirits of ammonia and a few drops of spirits of camphor shaken with two ounces of hot water. Swallow the mixture...
...printing press, Woodcutter Leighton uses the back of an old teaspoon, worn so thin that she can feel through it, to rub the damp paper on the inked block. There are other methods. Woodcutter Howard Heath (see cut), well known in New York art marts for his flower prints, prefers a little rubber roller...
...Paul was the Professional Golfers' Association championship, hardest match-play tournament in the world to win, for which British & U. S. Open Champion Gene Sarazen failed to qualify three weeks ago. Ponderous Olin Dutra who looks like Jack Dempsey and handles his putter like an elephant with a teaspoon, won the medal with 140. His brother Mortie, Johnny Farrell, Mike Turnesa, Abe Espinosa, Walter Kozak, Tommy Armour and last year's Open champion, Billy Burke, were all over the play-off score?153. The first round was memorable for two tremendous matches which passed the record set when Chick Evans...