Word: mustard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition, the convening Missouri Synod Lutherans harked back the hundred years and wondered at the Synod's present size compared with its mustard-seed beginnings. Exclaimed the Rev. Dr. Arthur Brunn of Brooklyn: "Some said the new Synod was too straitlaced, too hidebound to live in the land of the free...
Pulmonary anthrax, almost invariably fatal to man, might be effective-but it can get a foothold only on mucous membranes already raw with irritation. Rosebury & Kabat have a suggestion: mix up the anthrax spores with mustard...
Samuel Rufus Rosoff had dug $50,000,000 worth (25%) of New York City's complex subway system, largely by virtue of his shrewd tunneling into Tammany and labor politics. Then loud-voiced Rosoff, whose short, fat (200-lb.) body conceals a lot of muscle and mustard, practically disappeared from the Manhattan scene just before the war. No one wanted tunnels built then. He popped up only in occasional newspaper dispatches from Mexico City...
Hodgkin's disease is a cancerlike swelling of the lymph nodes and lymphoid tissue, which exists throughout the body. The victims-often young people-live, on an average, for about 30 months after the disease takes hold. The accepted treatment at present is X rays or nitrogen mustard (TIME, Oct. 21). Both are palliatives, offer no hope of cure...
...coffee dispenser is the latest gadget in the slot-machine industry, which has rapidly expanded to a jackpot gross of $500,000,000 a year. Automatic vendors now sell thousands of items, golf balls, perfume whiffs, laundry, toilet seat covers, insurance policies and hot dogs with mustard. In the offing are machines to sell 1) milk, butter, and ice cream in apartments, and 2) gasoline in automatic stations...