Word: brews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consisted of a lightweight container, one electrode made of magnesium and another of cuprous chloride. It could be stored indefinitely and activated by simply pouring in fresh or salt water. While cooking up some cuprous chloride on his wife's stove, Adams accidentally dropped cigarette ashes into the brew-and vastly improved it. Moreover, when his battery was connected to a load, a chemical reaction took place that produced heat. As a result, the battery worked surprisingly well at temperatures...
...demolished two waiting rooms and killed ten sleeping soldiers. More damaging has been the effect on South Viet Nam's economy: vegetable prices have soared 60% since the Communists cut the line between Dalat and Saigon, and the cost of "33" brand beer, Viet Nam's favorite brew, has climbed from 15 to 70 piasters a bottle in Danang. Says a U.S. adviser: "The only way to secure the line is to take up the rails at 5 p.m., and lock them up for the night...
Irishmen drink the rich, dark brew known as Guinness Stout pretty much as a patriotic duty. Of all the stout consumed in the country, 75% is produced by 206-year-old Arthur Guinness Son & Co., which has grown so large that it is a keystone of the Irish economy. Guinness employs 4,300 people, more than anyone else except the government. Indirectly, it supports 26,000 employees of 14,500 pubs-and 16,000 Irish farmers depend on Guinness to buy 100,000 tons of barley annually. The company pays $23 million yearly in excise taxes, has lent the government...
...John O. Brew, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, and David E. Bynum '58, instructor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, are among 11 scientists awarded fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies. The accompanying grants, subsidized by IBM, are for "experimentation with the use of computers as an aid to research in the humanities...
Residents of New Jersey sometimes liken their state to a keg of beer tapped at both ends, with New York and Philadelphia drawing off the state's talent, energy and brains. The residue is a flat, zingless brew that satisfies no one. Among the dregs is higher education -a field in which rich New Jersey has the poorest showing of effort among all the 50 states...