Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noticed that "a paste prepared from a small amount of macerated onion, garlic or other allied plant immediately emits volatile substances which are lethal to yeast cultures," frogs' eggs, protozoa (one-celled animals which live in water), etc. Two years ago Drs. Toroptsev and Filatova began grinding up fresh onions and garlic to see whether the smell would do any good to infected wounds of rabbits...
Oklahoma! Mint-fresh, clover-sweet folk musical with charming, un-Broadwayish dancing and gay Richard Rodgers tunes (TIME, April...
About half the couples needed for Alaskan stations will be recruited right in the territory. For the rest CAA is combing the States. The inducements: good salaries (ranging around $6,000 a year per couple), rugged scenery, plenty of fresh air and adventure...
There most of them lived to the ripe age of more than four months. They were fed varying diets of sterilized fish food, algae, housefly larvae and axenic worms. They grew best on the worms. When a platyfish died (apparently because of inadequate diet), it remained clear-eyed and fresh; there were no bacteria present to decompose it. At the end of the experiment nearly all the fish were found still free of microorganisms...
Pint-sized, grey-haired Arthur D. Whiteside, the 61-year-old President of credit raters Dun & Bradstreet, last week came out as a spokesman for all U.S. businessmen who fear the future. Fresh from a year as WPB's Chief of Civilian Requirements, he spoke to the potent American Retail Federation (representing 500,000 retailers) at its annual meeting in Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria. His thesis: the U.S. Government should control civilian goods production "on the basis of 1939" for two to three years after...