Word: bacon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...executive order President Coolidge increased the U. S. soldier's daily food ration from 35? to 50?. Some items in the new daily ration: Beef, fresh or frozen, 18 oz.; bacon, 6 oz.; flour, 18 oz.; beans, 1.2 oz.; rice, 8 oz.; potatoes, 17 oz,; onions, 5 oz.; prunes .384 oz.; sugar 4 oz.; butter, 1.75 oz.; pickles, .08 gill; cinnamon, .014 oz. Simultaneously, the War Department reduced the weight of the soldier's pack to 51 pounds...
...reputation of Friar Roger Bacon (1214-1294) as a scientist was burnished lately when University of Pennsylvania chemists obtained salts of copper by one of his cryptic formulae (TiME, Dec. 13). But last week Friar...
...CANNOT DIE- Thames Williamson-Small Maynard ($2.50). Strange and wonderful people appear in this strange and wonderful book. Richard Bacon, debonair and demoniac son of Alchemist Roger Bacon, visits Philadelphia about 1830. He is 567 years old. There he injects Arthur Pentland, young Pittsburgh snob, with the elixir of life.* Soon after, he breaks his neck, being no longer useful to Author Williamson Arthur Pentland, who as a child suffered from night fears and grew up to love only his mother (now dead), soon marries a girl that reminds him of his mother. Being ageless, however, he outlives...
...Roger Bacon's cryptic scripts, announced finally translated last week, describe the "elixir"(see SCIENCE...
...Bacon '08, of Jamaica Plain...