Word: mix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studious, convivial. After leaving M. I. T. he tried farming in Jamaica, later managed the Cartagena-Magdalena Railway in Colombia (which United Fruit has just taken over from the government). In 1908 he became a director of Old Colony and United Fruit. He is famed for his ability to mix Jamaica's famed planters' punch (one part lime, two parts syrup, three parts rum), is a moving spirit in the Club of Odd Volumes, whose headquarters is a former stable on Beacon Hill. He has written three books on the Caribbean, owns many an odd volume, belongs...
There is an old Wall Street saw that you cannot mix horses and stocks, but Benjamin Block's first horse was a great horse. Kentucky Derby-winner Morvich. Morvich was beaten in his 13th start? and never won another race. Twice a year Broker Block journeys to Elizabeth Pinkney Daingerfield's famed farm near Lexington. Ky. to spend a few hours with Morvich, his brood mares and his colts. "Some day," he says, "I'll have another Derby winner by Morvich. That's a prediction...
...looks like a bad day for us. ... We've been scouted plenty. They tell me the Army players even know how to pronounce our names. ... I don't know exactly how I'll start. . . . Last week the second team looked better than the regulars. ... I may mix the starting lineup, possibly the first string line and the second string backfield."-Coach Heartly ("Hunk") Anderson, before the Army v. Notre Dame game...
...beginning of the long small intestine. Here enter juices from the gall-bladder and pancreas. Those juices with the help of the duodenum's own alkaline secretions (mainly sodium bicarbonate), reduce the sour chyme's acidity. While this chemistry is going on, the duodenum pumps the mix forward into the next section of the intestine, the 8 ft. jejunum. During passage through the jejunum the alkalinization of the chyme ordinarily completes itself. The chyme becomes chyle, a creamy, nourishing substance which, while welling through more yardage of intestine, passes into the blood through lymphatic structure called lacteals...
...romantic operettas are compounded of essentially the same ingredients, but it requires the touch of the master to mix them, and flavor to the right taste. That such a long piece as "show Boat" does not wear on the spectator is ample proof that Ziegfield knew how to alternate his music, his choruses, and his skits, and above all he knew the settings to render each most effective. The scenes before the tent of the shimmy dances, in the 1892 World's Fair in Chicago, the aberations of Captain Andy Hawks, and the hawklike watchfulness of his termagant wife...