Word: phosphorus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ally, is calm and proud." As he concluded, swift Reynaud made one last plea for speed: "Immense values are at stake and time is limited."Calm and proud. Someone has said that though most human bodies are composed of oxygen (65%), carbon (18%), hydrogen (10%), nitrogen (3%), calcium (1.5%), phosphorus (1%), the body of a Frenchman is a simple compound of pepper, garlic, pate de foie gras, common bread and good red wine of the land. The French are pungent people. Little things make them gesticulate wildly and pour maledictions like a flood: a bowl of soup upset...
...Ball. 35, of Johns Hopkins: the Eli Lilly & Co. award of $1,000, given each year for distinguished research in biochemistry. Dr. Ball purified xanthine oxidase, an enzyme necessary for oxidation of food in the body; found it consisted of a protein fraction and a non-protein fraction containing phosphorus, nitrogen, Vitamin...
...villagers are not at all impressed by Tom's repeated examples of resourcefulness. They resent, too, such boyish pranks as his smoking out the school-house with a chemical mixture, bringing a bottle of nitroglycerine aboard a crowded train, setting the baggage car afire with phosphorus. Not until Tom sends a Morse code warning with a locomotive whistle, prevents a train wreck, do chastened citizens acclaim him a hero...