Word: beryllium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief proved or suspected producing agents, as Hueper lists them: physical agents, such as ultraviolet rays; inorganic substances, such as beryllium and selenium; organic chemicals, e.g., benzol; certain by-products from the process of refining oil shale and petroleum; vegetable products, e.g., betel nuts...
Edith Gwynn, a short, beryllium-hard brunette, in her late 30s, writes with the brash confidence of a columnist who knows she can't be fired. Her job, which pays about $300 a week, is guaranteed by her divorce settlement with the Reporter's Publisher W. R. ("Billy") Wilkerson. Natty, collie-eyed Billy has had plenty of experience with divorce settlements (his present wife is No. 5), but he never made a better one. Edie Gwynn's scatterbrained manner, quick bursts of nervous laughter and lavishly indiscriminate endearments ("lambie pie, beautiful cookie") hide a razor-sharp nose...
...both lungs and a slow wasting away, puzzled doctors. Last week Miss Burns died. Reported Medical Examiner Harrison S. Martland (who in the '20s discovered radium sickness among a group of women painting luminous watch dials): Miss Burns did not die of radiation sickness. Her illness was beryllium poisoning, caused by inhaling beryllium dust, used in the manufacture of fluorescent lamps...
Surely the world did. And without a doubt, the triumphal tour of Argentina's beryllium-bright First Lady to the musty corners of the Old World had its miraculous aspects. For sleek, 28-year-old Doña María Eva Duarte de Perón was no ordinary tourist. There was scarcely a capital where her iridescent progress had not been reported inch by inch, scarcely a newspaper from the Times of London to New York's Daily Worker which did not wonder out loud over the significance of the trip...
Somewhere in the Night (20th Century-Fox) is a beryllium-hard thriller and a rattling good celluloid chase. Goal of the fast, frenzied search: the hero's lost memory...