Word: mula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every Friday in Lent a mule without a head, mula sem cabeça, flies around Brazilian back-country towns, terrifying the peasants. With every movement of the trees, with every blowing paper, people stand still, sure they have seen the mula. At night they hear it bray and gallop over the roofs. Until recently, the phantom mule was the only extraterrestrial thrill most Brazilians ever...
...Boric acid, the old home remedy stand by, got some hard words in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It can be fatal when it gets into a baby's for mula by mistake and, says Dr. E. H. Watson of Ann Arbor, Mich.: "As a lavage to remove pus from the eye, a weak solution of sodium bicarbonate is much more effective." His advice: throw that boric acid out of the medicine cabinet...
Then one day a German biochemist named E. G. Huzenlaub (now a naturalized British citizen) marched into Harwell's Houston office with the magic for mula. Today the Harwell plant at Houston produces 1,200 barrels of Huzenlaub rice (called "converted rice") a day, all of it sold to the Army & Navy. In the new process the rough rice is soaked in warm water, undergoes a vacuum treatment, then is put under pressure which transfers the soluble vitamins and minerals from the husks and bran coatings to the kernel. Next a vacuum dryer seals the vitamins in the kernel...