Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that there are eight varieties of vitamin B, at least ten of D. One member of the vitamin B family is also known as vitamin G, another newcomer as factor Y. Two relatives of the C tribe are known as J and P. Most practical name-calling, so far as scientific convenience is concerned, would be to recognize each vitamin by its chemical name. Thus vitamin E would be known as alpha tocopherol, C as ascorbic acid, B² as riboflavin. But since the word vitamin is as popular with laymen as "calory" once was, chemists will probably continue...
...pace of old-fashioned brass foundries integrated with them. Meanwhile, war orders piled up at the same time as ordinary post-Labor Day orders from the auto companies, who want prompt delivery and plenty of it. This brass bottleneck caused copper sales to lag, particularly because brass manufacturers bought far ahead last May (TIME, May 15); and England, willing enough to buy processed brass, is not wasting her precious foreign exchange buying U. S. raw copper for her own mills, when she can obtain it from South Africa...
Ding-Dong, The Witch is Dead, Harold Arlen's most appealing peal from The Wizard of Oz, gets by far its best record production (verse and all) from Tenor Ralph Blane and Franklyn Mark's band (Liberty Music Shop...
...last wartime's best sellers appear particularly relevant: Winston Churchill's A Far Country, Penrod, Tish, Over the Top, The First Hundred Thousand, Belgium's Agony...
...whose only function is to sound in their lives the clear depths of human grace." In Henry IV, however, Van Doren considers that Shakespeare came to mastery by discovering that poetry can be better than beautiful; Hotspur, who hates poetry, is a fine poet "out of a hot love far nothing except reality and hard sense...