Word: flask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse--and Thou...
...other passengers is found to have died on route. Miss Oliver, refusing to accept heart failure as an explanation, sets out to discover which one of her fellow-passengers is guilty of the murder. As a lady-detective, she has to cope with a disappearing body, a poison flask, poison cigarettes, and James Gleason, a New York cop who is her partner in detection...
...CHIANTI FLASK - Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes- Longmans, Green...
...board instead of the stock board. Grain brokers, cotton brokers, sugar brokers, produce brokers, hope to capitalize on the fact that, so far, they have escaped the rigid Federal regulation of their fellow stock brokers. Minor commodities, as yet unexploited, were being investigated. Quicksilver, now selling at $75 per flask of. 76 Ib., was suggested as a good inflation hedge. Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, brash and jovial stockmarket operator, lately returned from a trip around the world full of good words for shellac and pepper. Though he personally inspected the habits of the Far Eastern lac beetle...
...Goodwin Pincus and his associate refined their operative procedure, gave their performers every advantage. The agouti* doe which was to contribute the ova was first allowed to mate with a sterile buck. After removal the ova, examined to make sure they were not fertilized, were placed in a culture flask for 20 min. with the healthy sperm of a non-agouti black buck. Finally they were implanted in the right Fallopian tube of a New Zealand Red doe which had been rendered pseudopregnant by a sterile mating. The dark grey color of the bunnies, born 33 days later, was proof...