Word: molds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...industrial concerns or to exploit them himself. He discussed the manufacture of alcohol from grain, potato, fruit residues; utilization of unfit lemons for making citric acid, working up steam waste into carbon, illuminating gas, acetic acid, furfural;* new methods of using lactose, casein, starch, sucrose, dextrose, etc. Old Foes. Molds have always been considered food destroyers, ruining bread, milk, fruit, everything on which their furry hairy mycelia develop. Dr. H. T. Herrick of the U. S. Department of Agriculture explained the disciplining of these molds to the service of man. Since Biblical days molds have been used for fermenting alcoholic...
...Author, whose real name is at present Mrs. William Rose Benét, gained her literary reputation when she published, in 1921, a book of poems called Nets to Catch the Wind. After Black Armour, more poetry, she poured into a mold of prose the fluent and shining metal of her talent for metaphor. Jennifer Lorn was her first novel; The Orphan Angel and The Venetian Glass Nephew its successors. Author Wylie, her publishers announce with a show of pride, spent less than three months in writing her latest novel. This is an admission less damaging than it appears...
...Society must be cast in the male mold. It must be dominated and inspired by man. It will thus become more elastic, more dynamic, more alive, healthier. If man had run society the last few years it would not have permitted . . . women to pattern their appearance on the rattlesnake, asparagus or a nail, with all the rotundities carefully smoothed...
...frequent fault with reformers, they fail to consider that while they are busy making plans for a better world, the majority of mankind must meantime carry on the everyday affairs of life. It is inevitable that they settle into a more or less permanent and conservative mold, on which it would be exceedingly difficult for liberal crusaders to make much impression. And if the liberally educated youth cannot retain his liberalism in hostile surroundings, it is as least as much the fault of his instruction as of the environment...
...Hurd merely presents an analysis of Oxford's personal methods, based upon the personality of the tutor, as delineated in contrast to the stamping mold of American college machinery. He attacks the Oxford system for the boredom and indifference which thirty years of monotonous repetition forces upon even the best of tutors...