Word: fermentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strangest of children's diseases is celiaca, a lingering intestinal ailment which produces diarrheaandmuscular weakness, stunts growth for several years. Victims of celiaca cannot utilize fats and carbohydrates; most sugars ferment in their intestines, cause enormous distention of the abdomen...
France was in a ferment, and so were its Nazi overlords. The New York Times heard last week that a full 90% of the French people were sick of collaboration with Germany. They had had both provocation and inspiration. There had been the ascendancy of the hated Pierre Laval in Vichy and the flashing British Commando raid on St.-Nazaire. The Times confirmed London reports that Frenchmen had not only received the Commandomen as deliverers but had also aided them with arms. The rising rate of Nazi executions fanned the fires. And, as if the demanding voices of the unspeakable...
...Mihailovich's example has kept all Yugoslavia in a wild anti-Axis ferment. The Axis has resorted to executing untold thousands, but the revolt continues. Last month the Nazis said they had seized Mihailo-vich's wife, two sons and daughter, threatened to execute all relatives of Mihailovich's army and 16,000 hostages if the General did not surrender within five days. He did not. It is a misfortune that conquered Europe cannot learn detail by detail the effective methods used by the gaunt, hard, bronzed fighter on TIME'S cover (painted...
...alcohol, also a solvent without which the chemical industry is helpless. We could ferment it from wheat, barley, or rye, although, through sheer inertia, we stick to molasses, although Germany has been fermenting potatoes for two decades. And only the Axis has bothered to distill it from coal or wood...
...What is Semitic 12, Sociology 19, English A2, and History 14a in comparison with the daily forming and stating of idealism's, the angry bull-sessions, the satisfaction of homeward treks as the sun comes up, the dashing of hopes, and the sudden thrill of Making The Board, the ferment intellectual and otherwise, the roar of the presses, the reports of the thoughts and actions of Harvard and of the world? "The House Committee reports . . . more organization . . . as President . . . lack of advertising . . . hope for the future . . . annual assessment . . . scooped the Boston papers . . . Lampoon incident . . ." Vag nodded approvingly: the old wise...