Word: agar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS-Herbert Agar-Houghfon Mifflin...
Five years ago Herbert Sebastian Agar won the Pulitzer Prize for history with The People's Choice. Critical beefing about Pulitzer Prize selections has gone on ever since there has been a Pulitzer Prize, but that time reached a crescendo. Historians called The People's Choice inaccurate. Leftists said it was fascist and critics said its selection on literary grounds was preposterous. Some of the outcry arose because half-a-dozen better works of history were published in 1933 but most of it came from opposition to Mr. Agar's thesis-that democracy was a dismal failure...
...Besides the early feeding of water and solid food by mouth, it is also extremely helpful to supply some adjuvant which will furnish bulk, retard bacterial growth and thus help to combat intestinal stasis. This purpose is best served by mineral oil in agar, with or without the addition of phenolphthalein...
LAND OF THE FREE-Herbert Agar- Houghton Mifflin...
...intestines has ever been demonstrated," claimed Drs. William Harwood Olmsted, 48, & Ray D. Williams of St. Louis, in telling why they fed three medical students such bulky foods as carrots, cabbage, peas, wheat bran, alfalfa leaf, corn germ meal, cotton seed meal, sugar beet pulp, cellulose flour and agar agar. How do such bulky foods make the bowels move? Drs. Olmsted & Williams decided: "The sum and substance of this physiological experiment goes to prove that the so-called 'bulk' of the human diet is not inert material going through the intestinal tract unchanged, but rather that...