Word: agar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particular bacillus used in Dr. Francis' experiment was taken in 1923 from a sick California ground squirrel. It was used to inoculate 48 test tubes partly filled with beef infusion agar jelly. The tubes were tightly sealed to insure a moist atmosphere and stored at a temperature...
...race between projectiles and armor is a bullet to shoot holes in so-called bulletproof gas tanks. These tanks have rubber linings which close up holes made by ordinary bullets. The new projectile has a loose tubular jacket which sticks in the rubber lining and keeps the hole open. > Agar-agar, gelatinous medium essential for growing bacteria in the preparation of vaccines against typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and whooping cough, was practically a Japanese monopoly before Pearl Harbor. Japs quietly got much of it from seaweed beds along the U.S. Pacific coast, taking care that no one else knew...
...your excellent review of Herbert Agar's book [TIME, Nov. 9] you say: A Time for Greatness suffers from the shortcomings of a sermon. Now just whataells wrong with a sermon...
Convinced that America's cardinal mistake has been to consider this civilization as a by-product of economic progress, Agar believes that merely economic arrangements will not prevent future wars, in short that peace cannot be bought...
Explosive Idea. Agar argues that the "explosive idea" of America is equality-equality of opportunity, equality in access to civilization, equality in protection against the abuse of political and economic power. But neither the U.S. nor the rest of the world has ever completely achieved this equality. In the U.S., the status of the Negro and the poverty of the South constitute the worst violations of historic U.S. principles. In the rest of the world, racial discrimination and the poverty of backward countries indict the weakness of the white man's works...