Word: agar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than two or three generations. Trouble was that in the beginning most bacteriologists thought that Pityrosporum ovalis could be cultured like diphtheria or scarlet fever bacteria. Actually the germ of dandruff is a fungus like yeast and needs special soil for growth. Drs. Moore & Kile raised it on wort agar...
...delicacy of the issue is Mr. Mencken's thin contribution. By a series of magnificent obiter dicta he manages to make reviews of works by Messer Herbert Agar and Will Durant pinch-hit for his missing editorials. The first of these reveals in a few well-chosen words the editor's reaction to N. R. A. and all that; the second says a few words on the Slav Utopia (Mencken's phrase for Red Russia) which should be prescribed reading to every member of the Harvard Socialist-Liberal-Club-Students'-League Knights-of-the-White-Kamelia organization. Further than this...
...Agar's analysis can gather few garlands in the name of novelty. It has been taught for years from every enlightened college lecture platform. "The People's Choice," however, may be counted important, for the very good reason that Mr. Agar has told his story simply and well, that he sums up a complicated analysis in terms that can be understood by the average citizen and in a year when such ideas should be common property...
...inclined to regret that Mr. Agar felt compelled to report with great detail on the early lives of his subjects and hence to compress his commentary into a meagre allotment of pages. But no reader can escape the fact that the author does keen justice to his characters. "Jemmy" Madison, for example, "the withered little apple-John," was "small, quiet, precise... In print he had authority and effectiveness; but he had neither of these qualities as chief executive of the nation;" William Howard Taft was a "genial, unambitious man who never got over the surprise at finding himself president;" Wilson...
...error of ridiculing the Articles of Confederation, that he fails to draw enough attention to the political sagacity of Jackson's bank veto, and that he assumes, without proof, that the rise of capitalism and its shelter, the fourteenth amendment, were carefully prearranged. But these are minor points. Mr. Agar set out to give John Citizen an understanding of his government's position today. He has succeeded admirably...