Word: calcium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three hours before the contest, because they agree with the Germans that "alkalinization should be produced suddenly." They also agree that no man should be kept in such an over-alkalinized state for more than four days at a time. Reason : his teeth and bones will lose their calcium, become soft. A favorite preventive: pot cheese...
...chemicals which Dr. Gericke adds to his water are those which ordinary plants need and get from the soil-calcium, magnesium, potassium, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, iron, boron, manganese, copper, zinc. Wire netting is stretched over the top of the tanks and packed with excelsior or sawdust in which the seeds are planted and from which roots sprout down into the water. This bed of litter on the netting serves to support the stalks after the plants are grown. Each tank has an area of .01 acre. In one of these Dr. Gericke grew 1,224 lb. of tomatoes, in another...
Like ostriches, cassowaries, children and certain abnormal adults, dogs sometimes develop an appetite for indigestible objects. Cause of this is usually a calcium deficiency in the blood. The usual method of relief has been to slice open the dog's stomach. Last week in Manhattan. Chief Surgeon Raymond Jesup Garbutt of the S. P. C. A. demonstrated a new bloodless way which he has invented to retrieve canine inedibles. Thrusting a 36-in. forceps down the throat of a bull terrier, Dr. Garbutt removed successively an 8-oz. lead sinker, a wrist watch, a sparkplug, a pair of dice...
Goodrich has invented a simple method of filling the tire with water from an ordinary garden hose. Water under normal faucet pressure suffices, is pumped in until the level reaches the valve. Then air inflation is added as usual. In winter, a calcium chloride solution prevents freezing. During operation over bumps, the water remains at the bottom of the tire, provides normal cushioning without bouncing...
...persons have suggested that the outpouring of injurious ultraviolet radiation may be so strong that human beings would have to carry umbrellas coated with lead before venturing under the glare of "Nova Cassiopeiae." Other highlights of the astronomers' convention: Nos- 60, 61, 62. In the sun hydrogen, helium, calcium, sodium, carbon, nitrogen, and many another terrestrial element have been identified by comparing the solar spectrum with very clear spectra of substances photographed in the laboratory...