Word: fiberizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small water-folk rejoicing in a new paradise. Scientists do not believe in fairies, good or bad, but they were quite willing to believe that much of Central Europe's woe was the work of these small water-folk. They were muskrats, common American fur-bearing rodents, fiber zibethicus. In 1903 an enterprising Czech farmer introduced them to the Danube basin where they increased and multiplied amazingly. But as they multiplied in their new environment, their coats deteriorated, becoming short and scrubby and unable to compete in the fur markets with the pelts of their sleek American cousins. Danube...
...iron-clad regulation as in the Tennessee imbroglio And even the mild allowance of half an hour a week from school-time is scarcely compatible with a healthy public self-respect. State encouragement of theology is an introversion of initiative implying a lack of confidence in the national fiber--a doubt striking at the foundation of morality...
...against vice in New York City and his fearless denunciations of the Modernist movement from the pulpit have gained Dr. Straton nation-wide prominence as the leader of the Fundamentalists. Modern dancing, in his booklet titled "The Dance of Death," is denounced as degenerate and destructive to the moral fiber of a nation, and the spectacle of a prize fight makes him wonder if we have again "relapsed into Paganism...
Does dancing indicate a serious defect in moral fiber...
...easy to develop tests to compute the strength of egg-shells, but beef has so far been harder. The Bureau expects to develop a machine to measure the tensile and tortional strains of each little fiber of beef, but is careful to check the findings by the teeth of expert beef eaters. Just what use will be made of these tests the Department of Agriculture does not state. To the casual observer it would seem that all the packers and restaurateurs would rise in a body to protest against their ancient prerogative of serving tough steak. What is more likely...