Word: dill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early next month Dill, who has been with the Fatigue Laboratory ever since its organization in 1927, will start feeding his guinea pigs an ounce of gelatin a day. Not in dessert form, this gelatin is dry and must be washed down with cold water...
Twenty-two students, mostly Freshmen, have volunteered to act as guinea pigs in a novel experiment which the University is sponsoring, David B. Dill, professor of Industrial Physiology, announced yesterday. The object of the experiment is to determine whether gelatin is the miracle food it is claimed...
...According to pickle lore Thomas Jefferson was a pickle-eater, may have composed the Declaration of Independence while sucking on a dill, and Julius Caesar led spiced cucumbers to his legionaries...
...pickle prospects are good. Probable gross: slightly better than 1938's $40,000,000. Pressing problems for this year are a shortage of dills (a reaction from last year's overselling of the dill market) and a dearth of one-bite pickles. Last year's summer rains played hob with this year's little fellows. Cucumbers grew overnight from midgets to larger sizes before they could be picked. This year's prospects (for next year's pickles) are better...
...London one day last week for talks with Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff, John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, Sixth Viscount Gort. In full regalia the generals met in London's Victoria Station. Together they toured Sandhurst and Aldershot where Lieut. General Sir John Dill showed off his latest tanks. General Gamelin peeped inside one, did not get in. At the spectacular Aldershot Tattoo, General Gamelin in a white-plumed hat took the salute while tanks, armored cars, caterpillar trucks, motorized antiaircraft units whirled past in the glare of searchlights...