Word: ferment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard, the tutorial system and the "reading period"; at Swarthmore and elsewhere, the honors plan; at Antloch the alternation of study with outside work. So the ferment goes on. We are fast getting away from what Hutchins of Chicago calls the country club idea of college and approaching a type of education that will make men and women more fit to cope with the new civilization. --Judge
Privy Fuel. Into underground tanks, similar to his up-to-date farm privy, let the farmer dump his field debris-straw, stalks, husks. They will ferment and produce methane (marsh) gas. Twenty pounds of pulped debris will develop 100 cu. ft. of gas, enough to light and heat the average farm house for a day. Corn stalks from 40 acres will give a winter's supply of gas. After the gas is exhausted the sediment in the tank can be purified and made into paper.-Illinois' Arthur Moses Buswell...