Word: caning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scientists know that the nonvolatile compounds in food are tasted; the volatile ones are both tasted and smelled. But why they taste or smell the way they do is still unknown. The chemical characteristics of a compound may have little to do with its taste. Cane sugar (sucrose) contains only carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, but it tastes much like saccharin, whose quite different molecule has nitrogen and sulphur atoms...
...would she date? "I don't know-I'll have to wait until they ask me." "What about your love life?" "Absolutely none, except music-at the moment." Well, what about the President's recent remark that he hoped to hand down his gold-headed walking cane to a grandson? "I think Daddy was a little short of something to say at that point...
...Their clothes were clean but more patched and ragged than is usual in Western Germany, they carried tiny battered satchels instead of suitcases, and their eyes were bright with anticipation. Thirty-five-year-old Pastor Reich, who lost one leg to a Russian mortar shell, hobbled forward on his cane to introduce himself. "Guten Tag," said Else Hartmann and Irma Mueller shyly...
...Then a boy wearing an Eton-type jacket got up and said: "Sir, if your union does away with corporal punishment, but continues to allow 'lines' [e.g., 100 from Virgil, in a fair round hand], all I can say is that I'd rather have the cane." Copping assured the boy that children should be able to abolish anything they wanted...
...followed by a handful of puzzled parents. It had been far from a boisterous success, but Copping was not discouraged. Last week he began laying plans to divide Britain up into districts and to launch a recruiting drive. His enthusiasm was shared by at least one other adult-Cane Manufacturer Eric Wildman, who had dropped in to hear Copping's manifesto at Kingsway Hall. Wildman thought the Copping thesis might bring on its own swift reactionary antithesis, with more corporal punishment than before, and great benefit to canemakers. Said he: "This is a fine advert [-isement...