Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred dainty girls, devoid of makeup and dressed demurely in ivory-colored robes, sat in a compound of Saigon's infamous Palace of Mirrors one day last week for a most unusual ceremony. The famous old bordello, once the headquarters of the most renowned madams and prostitutes in Asia, had been stripped of its mirrors and packed with desks and household equipment. From the front row of the crowd 27 girls made their way to the platform and received certificates of efficiency and good behavior from the Ministry of Health. "We thank the government," said one in a singsong...
Priority Target. Bochumer Verein has never claimed that it is the largest, or even among the largest of German steel companies. It ranks No. 9. What it does claim is "mass quality" and inventive ingenuity, for B.V. engineers have found ingenious ways to compound 350 kinds of steel alloys, mass-produce delicate spring steel for watches, wafer-thin sheet steel for razor blades, high-quality steel for turbines and locomotive wheels...
...Lewis consulted Skin Specialist Dr. Louis Schwartz, concluded that the reaction was similar to the reaction of drinkers to Antabuse, the anti-alcoholism drug which produces nausea and other physical disorders (TIME, Oct. 29, 1951). Then he learned that the company had recently doubled the amount of antiscum compound used in its color inks. Over at the ink-manufacturing plant he found that weekend drinkers were suffering the same ill effects. Dr. Lewis shut up Volunteers Puglisi and Grimes with a basin of antiscum compound, set them to playing cards and later to drinking whisky. They emerged splotched, red-eyed...
Judd & Detweiler switched to another antiscum compound. The boys started hoisting them again. Said happy Printer Puglisi last week: "Nobody's sick around here any more...
...four years ago . . ."), but never find out what makes the mathematician's brain work. In the hope of making arithmetic lively, some teachers insist on making each problem functional, as if there were nothing more to the subject than how to add up a grocery bill or compute compound interest. Such teachers completely misunderstand the adolescent, says Beberman. "The adolescent is the purest intellectual in our society. He doesn't have to be concerned with practical problems." The question that concerns him most...