Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as it looked as though the varsity squash team were in for its second trimming of the season, Crimson players pulled from behind in the last three matches to fashion a 5 to 4 win over Princeton Saturday...
More precisely, the story, while not a fantasy, is totally fantastic. Although no guarantee can be made as to the precision of the following brief synopsis, as the events were attached to each other in a highly unmemorable fashion, the story goes something like this: James Stewart, playing the part of a man who takes public opinion polls, is about to go out of business; he discovers the "magic town," a village which has the precise proportion of doctors, lawyers, Republicans, Democrats, loiterers, etc., as does the entire nation; he goes there, on the theory that an analysis...
...onion may be coming back into medical fashion. The Russians have discovered that onion and garlic vapors heal wounds (TIME, March 13, 1944). They called the germ-killing substance a phytoncide (meaning: a killer derived from plants). Now Food Chemist Edward F. Kohman has found that the active chemical agent in onions is a thioaldehyde, a close relative of the common antiseptic, formaldehyde. Chemist Kohman put raw onions through an ordinary household meat grinder, distilled the onion vapors, put them through a series of chemical tests. In a recent issue of Science, he reported finding about 1/20 of a gram...
...Barclaymen began the game in sparkling fashion, quickly rolling up a lead over a Princeton team whose passing was ragged and whose shots were all wide...
Duclos finished to thunderous applause. The audience sang the Marseillaise instead of the Internationale (which is de rigueur at more conventional Communist meetings). Then the petits bourgeois filed out in orderly fashion. At the door, they received leaflets urging them to join the Communist Party. The Reds tried to tell them that they had nothing to lose but their taxes; most French bourgeois knew that they had nothing to win but their chains...