Word: jelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other Agricultural Department chemists revealed new wartime medicinal uses for pectin, the chemical in apples which makes jelly jell. Working on Navy orders the chemists discovered: 1) pectin paste and tannic acid is a natural for battle burns; 2) pectin is a good stand-in for Jap-controlled agar-agar, intestinal lubricant...
When the wicked, even mine enemies and mine foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and jell. Though an host of men were laid against me, yet shall not my heart be afraid; and though there rose up war against me, yet will I put my trust...
...Benny, to whom Comedian Bob Hope presented a special Oscar for being "sweater girl of the year" (in Charley's Aunt), got another present last week-not to be opened until autumn. Next season, Sponsor General Foods confessed, Benny will plug some other General Foods product, not the Jell-O with which he shares his present fame. Reason: JellO, being 60% sugar, may not be made nor sold in sufficient quantities to warrant the expensive exertions of Funnyman Benny, whose new two-year contract calls for a salary of $22,000 a week for 35 weeks-highest...
Divorced. By Orator Francis Woodward, 56, multimillionaire gelatin heir (Jell-O): Mary Trask Woodward, his second wife; in Reno. Reported to have settled $1,000,000 on his first wife, Persis Davis Woodward, he was ordered last June to pay Wife No. 2 $42,000 a year separate maintenance...
...Annals of Surgery, a group of Detroit scientists described their blood substitute, which is cheap, plentiful, harmless-and comes from the kitchen. The substance: pectin-a whitish, grainy carbohydrate, made from grapefruit, lemons or other fruit. Housewives use pectin to put jell into jellies; surgeons sometimes use it externally as a wound healer...