Word: bouillon
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...swank banquet room of the Hotel Vancouver, 170 new Soviet citizens sat down last week to eat a $2.50 dinner of bouillon, roast chicken, green peas, ice cream and coffee...
...should last longer than an hour. Guests were invited to balls at 10:30. A few admirals and the clergy arrived at 11. The others dined, played bridge, arrived at midnight. Supper was served before 1:00 for the elderly, who took a glass of champagne, a cup of bouillon, a roll, and their departure. The youngsters danced till daybreak, ate breakfast of ham & eggs, and hurried to Bailey's Beach for a swim...
...spell of vigorous contractions every three hours or so. (Unless there was something inside, the stomach walls touched each other.) Between times, contractions were rare, slow and gentle. The stomach could be made to start work in the midst of a rest period by feeding it solids (e.g., a bouillon cube); it could be made to relax in the middle of work by feeding it liquids. > Tom's stomach secreted juice continuously, about 8 to 15 cc. an hour even while resting. (This contradicts a conclusion William Beaumont drew in 1833 from his famous experiments on Alexis St. Martin...
...When Tom was frightened both his face and his stomach lining turned pale. When Tom was depressed, his stomach lining, which usually reddened and increased its secretion of acid after a dose of beef bouillon, hardly responded at all to such feeding. When Tom got mad, his face got red and so did his stomach. (This happened when an officious clinic secretary angered him.) More than any other emotion, anxiety increased the amount of blood in the stomach membrane and the amount of acid secretion. When Tom was anxious (e.g., worry about his stepdaughter's illness and death...
...shade, a five-day trial gave equally nourishing results. The menu was surprisingly varied. Breakfast consisted of enriched biscuits, compressed graham crackers, veal luncheon meat, fruit bar, malted milk dextrose tablets, soluble coffee, sugar, chewing gum, four cigarets. Dinner was much the same, with the addition of powdered bouillon-but without coffee or fruit bar. Supper: biscuits, cheese, fruit-juice powder, chocolate bar, sugar, chewing gum, cigarets...