Word: lukewarm
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Methylcellulose, Dr. Bargen found, is a bulking substance which can be taken handily in tablet form. In lukewarm water or in the digestive tract it forms a suspension of "innumerable tiny translucent gelatinous particles 0.5 mm. or less in diameter." It goes through most of the digestive tract unchanged, but loses water and turns to a bulky jelly about the time it reaches the colon. Dr. Bargen checked on its progress at regular intervals-through abdominal openings in patients who had had intestinal operations...
...Royal Australian Navy put into Melbourne in time to make some bets. They were joined by thousands of high-talking, high-betting landlubbers who overflowed hotels, slept on park benches. There was no overpowering favorite in this year's Cup, and no apparent skulduggery-although Count Cyrano, a lukewarm choice, fell in a workout two days before the race and had to be destroyed...
...contains twelve cartoons, drawings and pictures, of which two or three are mildly funny. Instead of the usual feature of the freshman issue, an annotated street map of Cambridge, the center spread is a scrawled but reasonably accurate picture of Scollay Square. The poetry and prose departments are lukewarm at best-the best being a nicely illustrated but overlong discussion of the Social Register by one Rex Pose. Perhaps the funniest part of this issue is the absence of all titles behind the names of the executive board on the masthead...
...recent election, Local 600's President Tommy Thompson, lukewarm friend of Reuther, had been forced to ride the issue even harder. When Local 600 voted 30,000 to 4,000 to call the strike, Reuther's international board at first stalled on authorizing the strike...
...listeners to "be patient" with them when they did: "Sometimes the greatest sinners make the greatest saints." Earlier she had told the press about her conversion to Roman Catholicism. In a way, she supposed, it was inevitable: "People who are genuine Communists, as I was, aren't the lukewarm type. They can't go into a vacuum if they give up Communism. They must have something...