Word: gut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken in by a pious uncle who soon goes to a Mental Home for Clergymen. Befriended by the fashionable Mrs. Molly, Ben is sent off to school, studies for the ministry, is disgraced in his snobbish surroundings when cranky Miserable Sarah leaves her home in the village of Dirty Gut to visit...
Bulk in the Gut. "This is the first time the true nature of the action of bulky food in the intestines has ever been demonstrated," claimed Drs. William Harwood Olmsted, 48, & Ray D. Williams of St. Louis, in telling why they fed three medical students such bulky foods as carrots, cabbage, peas, wheat bran, alfalfa leaf, corn germ meal, cotton seed meal, sugar beet pulp, cellulose flour and agar agar. How do such bulky foods make the bowels move? Drs. Olmsted & Williams decided: "The sum and substance of this physiological experiment goes to prove that the so-called 'bulk...
...marry on Thanksgiving Day. But last week Otto Van Derck spent what was to have been his wedding day in jail. He had confessed to aiding and abetting two of his B customers in a $54,000 swindle. His confession cracked in time's nick a dazzling plot to gut a life insurance company with $70,000,000 of policies in force...
...Pacific Southwest Tournament. Made not from catgut (sheep intestine) with which tennis racquets are commonly strung, Sinu is made from calf's tendon. Developed by Charles T. (''Tommy") Davis and Dr. George Aaron Sharp in Brooklyn, it has long been used as a substitute for gut in surgical sutures. It is manufactured like a textile. The gristly tendon is "exploded" into a tuft of fluffy white material like cotton, but much tougher. After being cleaned, carded, twisted into cord, chemically treated, stretched and dried, the result looks almost exactly like catgut...
Retired in middle-age to the sunshine of Beverly Hills, Calif., Davis and Sharp tried stringing their racquets with Sinu. To their great joy they found the sinu racquet much livelier than gut; found that soaking it in a bucket of water did it no hurt. They have built a factory in California, will have Sinu on the market in January...