Word: blistering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mort Waldstein, who struck out 11 of the Scarlet batsmen in the first encounter, went out with a blister on his pitching hand in the fourth inning against Cornell last Saturday and is not yet ready for action...
...bushels of wheat in North America in 1916, was proved to pass part of its life cycle on barberry bushes. So, within twelve years, some 18,500,000 of these bushes were destroyed in the U. S. alone. Wild currants were eradicated because they nourished a blister-fungus of U. S. white pine...
...almost dangerous point. The Government, seriously thinking that the enemy might use gas in his assault on the British Isles, initiated a series of test gas attacks, warned citizens to keep their masks about them, reminded them that the yellow signboards all over the countryside would turn red if blister gas touched them, issued instructions for making rooms relatively gasproof with sticky tape and rubber stripping...
...their presence. They are seldom fatal, but in warfare an invalid needs more care than a corpse. Mustard gas is the most famous of the vesicants. Whereas in World War I sternutators caused one casualty for every 650 pounds of gas used, and lung injurants one per 230 pounds, blister gas was much more efficient: one per 60 pounds. There are no certain defenses against it except reprisal. But it is not the easiest gas to make...
...admitted he had "given him the knee." Harlem's New York Age headlined: "Secretary of Pres. Roosevelt Kicks N. Y. Negro Policeman. "New York's Police Commissioner Valentine ordered an investigation. So did District Attorney Tom Dewey, out campaigning for Willkie. Protests and denunciations began to blister in the press. Somebody remembered that Steve Early had written a Saturday Evening Post article last year on the unfair attacks on President Roosevelt. Its title: "Below the Belt...