Word: alum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Champagne, on the other hand, must submit to indecent manipulations. To render it epileptic they dose it with candied sugar, tannin, brandy, alum. They mix it with other wines. They shake it. They set each bottle rump in air, and they oblige it to spit?and this word is a euphemism?the muck that has settled against the cork. . . . The manufacturers, in spite of all difficulties, finally conquer the undisciplined beverage. They stick a label on its belly, slap a gold or silver plaque on its head, and there it is ready to conquer the world...
Active work of the Harvard Fund Council the controlling board of the Harvard Fund which was introduced with success last year to the alum of the University as a means for raising annually money for the College and Graduate Schools, will begin for 1927 with two important meetings to be held at the Harvard Club of Boston on January 10 and 25. On January 10, the Council will hold the first of its stated meetings for the year, when publicity plans and general business will be discussed. At this meeting also announcement will be made of the name...
...your beef is "embalmed," if there is alum in your bread, if your pickles are deleterious, if there is caffein in your bottled beverages, then the President will have ignored the admonition of "Old Borax." Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, longtime (1883-1912) chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture, known as "Old Borax," called at the White House last week. He called because he believed that the provisions of the Pure Food and Drug Act, drawn under his supervision, had been weakened by the administrative orders of successive Secretaries of Agriculture ever since 1907. He brought evidence demanding changes...
...Alum dissolved in water is prescribed by Coach E. L. Farrell of the University cross-country team to toughen the soles of the feet of all candidates for the University and Freshman teams. It was the method used by the United States Army to prepare recruits for a long march...