Word: brew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some day, the biochemists may be able to brew a magic concoction that will improve man's intelligence. At Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons, three researchers-Drs. Frederick T. Zimmerman, Bessie B. Burgemeister and Tracy J. Putnam-have reported some interesting experiments with children who were given regular feedings of glutamic acid...
...French perfume manufacturers have gone out of business. Another 600 are expected to close shop by the end of the year. Most were fly-by-nights who set up in business during the war and filled fancy flacons with any sweet, synthetic smell-or colored water-that chemists could brew. They cleaned up, selling to the unsophisticated Nazis and later to the G.I.s...
Organized labor wailed in agony. William Green had declared: "Hartley will be classified as one of labor's chief enemies." C.I.O. spokesmen called the measure "a poisonous witches' brew." Old New Dealers in Congress echoed them...
Quaffing a brew on the 5:48 out of Stamford last night, a Gov-major became interested in his neighbor, a tidy character who, between swallows of a rye-and-soda, was drawing invert-ted U-curves on a sheet of paper...
...member of the Berlin Magistral recently stopping in for a Heissgetränk (hot brew) at an ancient, smoke-blackened wine cellar saw a sight that made him rub his eyes. Around a table sat a group of middle-aged men, some bemonocled, some with pince-nez, all with wide silk bands of green, white and gold across their chests. Before them stood an elaborate, gold-fringed banner with the same colors, and beside it lay a wooden mallet covered with faded signatures. Meeting here amid Berlin's ruins was a chapter of Saxo-Borussia, one of the most...