Word: kernel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white bread. Improved milling makes possible the inclusion of the wheat germ in the flour. This provides iron and two essential vitamins: thiamin (for a healthy nervous system) and niacin (to prevent pellagra). Such flour need not be "whole wheat," which includes the harsh outer coating of the kernel. Professor Sherman recommends the "longer-extraction" or "wholemeal" flour which discards the coating, but utilizes about 85% of the wheat kernel. It is the basis of the British "national loaf...
...basic and little emphasized complaint of the AFM against the recording industry, corrective steps should be taken. It is in this point, that musicians do not gain a proportional royalty return for their records played in juke boxes or over the radio, that the kernel of legitimate complaint in Petrillo's truckload of hot air lies. Ironically, the legal reasoning that prevents such returns, by declaring that companies have no post-sale control over records, is the same that will now prevent all new recordings when Petrillo's ruling that subsist on canned music. But the answer does...
...classes lost their one remaining means of ever influencing the Nazi German State. For every practical purpose the middle-class army-the SA Brown Shirts-was disbanded. It was forbidden to meet or drill. Smith says the SA was disbanded because "it was an organization. An organization is the kernel of political action," and political action by the deceived and squeezed-out middle class might have been against those in power...
...Allahabad meeting went on to show that the Congress is still a kernel of rice in the palm of Gandhi's wizened hand. In the end the Working Committee majority decided to urge India's masses to face the Japanese with Gandhi's historic policy of Satyagraha (resistance by nonviolent non-cooperation...
...unable to force its way through one of the three pores in a germinating nut. Like a sand grain in an oyster, the sprout was then encrusted with layers of calcium carbonate-even though chemists have never found this compound in either the nut's milk or kernel...