Word: agar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much of the prewar imports U.S. business could buy, or would want to, nobody knew. The market for silk was drastically reduced (TIME, May 26). For some time, at least, it looked as if trade in other items -fish, tea, cotton piece-goods, agar-agar, pottery, toys-would be small...
...FORMATIVE YEARS: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE ADMINISTRATIONS OF JEFFERSON AND MADISON (1,030 pp.)-Henry Adams, condensed & edited by Herbert Agar-Houghton Mifflin...
Pulitzer Prize Historian Herbert Agar (The People's Choice) has condensed its nine volumes into two, largely by jettisoning Adams' footnotes and masses of documentary matter. The product is still far from pint-sized: it runs to some 400,000 words, or twice the size of The Education. But at last the general reader may have in reasonably compact form what is acknowledged to be : 1) the standard text in its field, 2) one of the most brilliant of all U.S. histories...
Even in Editor Agar's abridged form, however, it is hardly light reading. Adams made an exhaustive study of Jefferson's two terms and the amazing Burr conspiracy, of Madison's two terms and the War of 1812, of the struggles of the young democracy against enemies at home & abroad. Started when Adams was still in his 40's-long before he became the cackling old cynic convinced that the world was going to pot-the work was his scholarly masterpiece and occupied what were probably his best years...
...Streit's counterpart in England, Agar will boost world federalism in Britain, report British viewpoints for Freedom & Union. He will work in his flat off Berkeley Square "because it's easier for me to be quiet there," will spend much of 1947 on a book which will tell "how our government developed the way it has." After that, it will be Freedom & Union full time...