Word: bran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pont flies are fed milk and bread. Their eggs are hatched in a "synthetic manure" of wheat bran, alfalfa meal, yeast and malt. Codling moths, scourge of apple growers, have a room to themselves, with long rows of little green apples, each hanging from its own hook. These insects are caught by nailing corrugated paper board to apple trees. The moth larvae think this material is bark, dig in. Their cages are hung with purple cellophane to simulate twilight. In the greenhouse basement is the Japanese beetle division. This handsome insect, whose U. S. infestation is spreading from a focus...
...RORY AND BRAN-Lord Dunsany-Putnam ($2.50). Adventures of a half-wit youth and his dog in the pixillated Irish countryside; in the same vein but not the same class as James Stephens' Crock of GoId...
...well known and as popular as a successful breakfast food, and for the same reasons : it is a standard brand and it pleases the public palate. To analyze an Oppenheim book would be as uninformative a process as to announce that a breakfast food was compounded simply of bran, malt, sugar and salt. The important thing is what it tastes like...
Showing the same bran of ball which had enabled them to win 19 straight victories, Captain Art Johns' Freshman baseball team defeated Yale 8-6 at New Haven Saturday in the objective game of the season. This win gave the Yearlings the almost perfect slate of 20 victories and one tie, the best Freshman baseball record in years...
...machines (x-rays, diatherms, sunlamps), corsets, books. Since the establishment of a Committee on Foods, which under Dr. Fishbein's control passes on the health claims of food processors, food advertising in the Journal mounted. Current users of full pages include General Foods (Postum, Post's Whole Bran), Corn Products (Karo Syrup), Knox Sparkling Gelatine, Best Foods (Nucoa Oleomargarine), Dole Hawaiian Pineapple Juice. Chevrolet and Buick are the only motor cars bidding for doctors' business. By advertisements, demonstrations at medical meetings and by packages sent to doctors' offices, Philip Morris has almost succeeded in identifying...