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...room where cooks are stuffing chickens by the dozens. The main cooking room is lined on one side with a row of massive ranges, and on another side a row of six stock pots simmer and boil. In the center hang great copper kettles and ladles glistening in the moist warmth while chefs feverishly prepare the evening meal on the tables below...
Viennese operetta, the champagne of the Habsburgs, is doing its biggest U.S. business in years. In Manhattan during the past few months the lilting waltzes of Chocolate Soldier, The Merry Widow, Gypsy Baron, Beggar Student and Fledermaus have drawn throngs of moist-eyed listeners to Carnegie Hall and the Lewisohn Stadium. Produced in German by troupes of Viennese refugees, or in English by personable companies of youthful U.S. singers, Johann Strauss, Karl Millocker and Franz Lehar have played to packed houses for weeks at a time...
...crowded Newark courtroom, Thomas F. Meaney last week took oath as Federal District Court Judge for New Jersey. Judge Guy L. Fake made a little speech of welcoming praise. Said Judge Meaney, with a moist eye, a lumped throat: "I can only say what is in my heart, and that is gratitude...
...much nitrogen (33% of the return) to the soil as manures and chemical fertilizers together. But their natural activity can be artificially increased if more bacteria are mixed with legume seed and planted with it. This process is called soil inoculation. Farmers buy the inoculating bacteria in cans of moist humus or bottles of sugary jelly. Enough bacteria for an acre cost from 25? to 40?, will fix from 100 to 200 lb. of nitrogen. This is equivalent...
...loot is kept in a bureau drawer, where the more recent acquisitions have been piled while still moist on their more moldy predecessors, the whole contributing to what his roommate describes as an olfactory symphony...