Word: fermentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next decades will be a time of distress and of gnashing of teeth. We shall live in the hollow of the historial wave . . . [but] the day is not far when the present interregnum will end and a new horizontal ferment will arise ... an irresistible global mood, a spiritual springtide like early Christianity or the Renaissance. It will probably mark the end of our historical era, the period which began with Galileo, Newton and Columbus, the age of scientific formulation ... of the ascendance of reason over spirit...
...Bellies. Heaviest of the burdens was the oldest one-the weight of India's 390,000,000 Moslems and Hindus of many castes, divided amongst themselves, in chronic ferment against the British Raj and all that the Viceroy represents. Lord Wavell had followed monolithic Lord Linlithgow, the outgoing and unregretted 18th Viceroy, into office at a time when the Raj was at its lowest point yet in both Indian and British esteem. Many of India's millions, ordinarily unstirred by and unaware of the political issues which engross the articulate minority, felt in their bellies a failure...
...Cornell (B.A. 1927) and Harvard (Ph. D. 1936), he is a devoted small-college man. He believes that institutions of Wesleyan's size (about 700 students in peacetime) supply a social education that the big university has "tended to blot out." Says he: "We must . . . provide a ferment in American society . . . creating a sound social leadership...
...brought to the city numerous white workers from the South who have deep racial feelings; that housing conditions are bad; that Detroit is a fertile field for crackpots and agitators of all kinds, like the sinister Gerald L. K. Smith . . . that new employment opportunities, as well as the general ferment of ideas caused by the war, have given the Negroes greater economic power and greater ambitions. ... It would have been far more wholesome if the committee . . . had addressed itself to the need for better housing, to an examination of Klan activities and to a study of the methods and purposes...
...water, a ton and a half of molasses (on whose sugar the yeast feeds) and ammonia (which provides nitrogen that the yeast converts into protein). The mixture is kept warm, stirred by 1,000 cu. ft. of air a minute (without air the yeast would ferment the sugar). After twelve hours the prodigiously growing yeast, having multiplied its original weight 16 times, is a ton of flavorsome food. In its uncooked form it is a dry, light, brownish powder with a meaty, nutty or celery flavor, depending on the variety...