Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flavors of sweat, the human body is a regular soda fountain-the sweat of the brow is strong in uric acid, the sweat of the hands is strong in chloride (salt), the sweat of the thigh is strong in lactic acid. These pungent facts are disclosed in a report by Drs. Olaf Mickelson and Ancel Keys of the University of Minnesota in the Journal of Biological Chemistry...
...many pioneer studies in Southern sociology, especially those of Odum and his followers. In 1935 the press brought out Clarence Cason's 90° in the Shade a few days after the Alabamian blew out his brains, fearing the reaction of his University of Alabama colleagues to his acid study of Southern culture...
First released some ten years ago as a horror film with Lon Chaney displaying his acid-distorted profile, "Phantom of the Opera" has had its face lifted, this time the gruesome details being definitely in a minor role. The new technicolor production's efforts are centered on the operatic background and on a cleverly handled romance, rather than depending on sheer horror to draw, the flocks to the box-office. The result is a thoroughly enjoyable picture, thanks to well proportioned bits of music, color, comedy, horror, and yes, even romance...
Colonel Ed has seen things in the company he has kept that, would burn and illumine the pages of history. But his memoirs, if he ever writes them, would probably lack the acid, gossipy trivia that make such memoirs bestsellers. To this native of Hopkinsville, Ky. the world contains two kinds of men: gentlemen and others. In his rougher dealings with possible assassins (the legend is that Starling can "sense" a crank in a crowd), gentlemanly Colonel Ed has been known to address a suspicious character as "pahdner." Ambassadors, foreign potentates, Supreme Court justices, Congressmen, newsmen and other citizens...
Peanuts. A highly concentrated food, they excel as a source of the vitamin nicotinic acid. The Department of Agriculture expects peanut cultivation to jump from 5,000,000 to nearly 6,500,000 acres next year...