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Krebiozen is a whitish powder prepared from the serum of horses that have been injected with material from an abscess (known as "lumpy jaw") occurring in cattle. Its effect, according to Yugoslav-born Dr. Stevan Durovic, its discoverer, is to provide the body with a regulatory hormone that it needs to control the multiplication of cells...
...pickup of the small but illuminating drama of Adlai Stevenson's reception for Mrs. Roosevelt; Bess Truman, behind dark glasses, nudging Harry in the ribs for speaking out of turn; bottle-bald Sam Rayburn (who did not submit to a dulling topsoil application of orange powder this time, as he did the last) threatening to shoot an admonishing finger right through the little glass screens in U.S. living rooms; the grin spreading across H. V. Kaltenborn's face as he watched Harry Truman (on film) impersonate Kaltenborn's clipped commentary in the 1948 elections (later, at Perle...
...kings of Europe regularly hired alchemists not only to try to produce the elusive gold, but also to discover what made Chinese porcelain superior to European kinds. In 1709 an alchemist named Boettger found the secret (based on using kaolin, a white clay that he found in his wig powder). He made the secret known to Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Augustus established a ceramics works at Meissen, destined to dominate European porcelain for the next 41 years...
...Dental Powder. In Paris, after he fell asleep in his dentist's waiting room, Amedee Picart awoke to find that the dentist had locked up and gone off on vacation, was forced to call police to let him out of the office...
...mean softheadedness toward Korea, your speculation on the chances of a Roman Catholic Veep helping the Dems win in '56 could be justified only if Father Rigney were a candidate. With Red Chinese ranging in Burma, hardy Tibetans battling Mao's tanks with muskets, and a powder-keg "peace" in Korea, I doubt if even a Catholic nudist with the stature of Diana Dors or the popularity of Elvis Presley could do much effective "muffling...