Word: fermentable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance of a new Wells book nowadays is somewhat the same as one more cake of yeast in a maturing batch of beer. To the enormous public that reads him, Mr. Wells long since imparted the whole quality, if not the whole quantity, of his fine ferment. Meanwhile might have started up a great fizzing two decades ago when Mr. Wells was building time-machines and worlds beyond the Milky...
...however, less the misgovernment of the Hapsburg rulers that produces ferment in Croatia and Bosnia, than the rise of a passionate nationalism in those provinces and a desire to unite with men of their own blood and language in the Serbian kingdom. The justification put forward by the champions of the Jugoslavs is the same as that put forward by the friends of Italian unification, namely, that they had a right to desire racial unity and political independence, and had also a right to fight...
Butchers, bakers and candlestick makers, waiters, tailors and candy-store clerks must beware their teeth. So said German scientist K. F. Hoffman last week. Indoor work tends to wear down bodily resistance. Poor ventilation helps teeth decay; dusts discolor teeth; sugar and flour ferment to form enamel-destroying acids...
...gauntlets, riding midair on a girder -perhaps a bone in the steel skeleton of the new Book Building, "world's highest." They saw the muscular, furious, aging Christ striding over the world more like a scourge than a savior-the figure of Christ that had caused so much ferment in Sculptor Kalish's native Cleveland. As everywhere, there were plenty of people to quarrel with the artist's anatomical exaggerations and inaccuracies; his tendency to pose a character rather than compose a type. But the majority marveled at his obvious sincerity and unusual power. Detroit, hive...
...books are all highly and openly philosophic; only his Viennese delicacy and finesse have saved him from the bogs and fogs which beset most German writers. He pictures a group of people, the life of whom is calm and ordered; but somewhere in this group there is the ferment of evil. In the path of each little insignificant wrong, punishment subtly folows sin. Nemesis pursues Man--Oedipus, Christian Wahnschaffe--, Man, who must act and yet knows not how, lost in a world in which ignorance is no excuse for criminality. Destruction is swift cutting down even the most innocent...