Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with one big war over, the world looked like a "community of nations" to Elihu Root, and from that fact he took cautious hope. But even then hope had an acid taste: "The [world] community has grown just as communities of natural persons grow. . . . The neighbors generally must govern their conduct by the accepted standards or the community will break...
...suspected that one reason for a queen bee's long life might be her rich diet: royal jelly. Royal jelly is exceptionally rich in pantothenic acid (a B vitamin believed to prevent grey hair), and in pyridoxin and biotin (also B vitamins). Dr. Gardner mixed up a brew of these three ingredients and a substance known as sodium yeast nucleate, and fed it to some fruit flies. The exciting result: the Gardner mixture increased the fruit flies' average life span 46%; pantothenic acid alone increased...
Last week Gardner reported his discovery to the American Chemical Society, convened in Manhattan. He pointed out, significantly, that pantothenic acid is found in considerable amounts in young animal tissues and in milk (babies' food). He has not yet tried his experiment on animals or human beings, but he thinks it may be interesting when he does...
Columnist Marquis Childs, who does not often scold the Truman Administration, had an acid suggestion for the Attorney General: "If Clark looks around suddenly at a Cabinet meeting, he is likely to find a culprit or two within arm's length. Two fundamental errors of the Truman Administration contributed to the price spiral. One was the repeal of the excess-profits tax. The other was . . . the encouragement of labor in demanding additional...
...Stalling! Stalling!" The day before the matches, the U.S. girls practiced under a blazing sun on the Forest Hills (L.I.) courts, subject to the stern eye and acid comments of Cup Donor Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman. When one of them loitered over a courtside conversation, Mrs. Wightman snapped: "Stalling! Stalling!" Sighed blonde Jean Bostock, as she watched Margaret Osborne: "I'll be lucky to even get a point!" The British girls had been experimenting with U.S. menus. Pert Betty Hilton was feeling poorly. "It's because of the cream puffs," confided Teammate Kay Stammers Menzies...