Word: oatmealization
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...were built to keep the river out of the excavation area. Three weeks ago one of these crumpled and water poured through the leak. The engineers tried vainly to stem the flow with earth, gravel, brush. Then they thought of volcanic ash. When this is moistened it swells- like oatmeal-to 15 times the dry volume, tightly plugging every crack & cranny. Tons of the puffy paste were poured into the breach and the flow of invading water shortly ceased...
...Toad Lane in the Lancashire textile city of Rochdale dates not only the amazing growth of British co-operation but all modern consumer cooperation. There in 1844 amid the energetic jeering of local shopkeepers a little co-operative store was opened with a stock of flour, butter, sugar and oatmeal. The society's ?28 capital had been put in by its 28 members, most of whom were weavers. What these cooperators lacked in capital was more than made up in vision, for within twelve years their society was doing a $100,000 annual business, and the so-called Rochdale...
...mixed sugars added, with supplements of vitamins D and C. On the other hand all types tolerate breast milk." Other Kugelmass advice: for allergic newborn babies, goat's, evaporated or vegetable milk; for nervous babies, evaporated milk or gruel (milk or water cooked with cornmeal or oatmeal); for pudgy babies who lose weight rapidly and irregularly, evaporated milk...
...Chamber of Horrors we saw bloody figures and figures of ladies and gentlemen who .had killed people, and Mamma said, 'Crime doesn't pay.' " On the boat, "Mamma came down to breakfast with us the first two days. She made us eat oatmeal. But then she didn't come down to breakfast any more, so we had pickles and wurst for breakfast. They didn't have any ice-cream for breakfast, but they gave it to us for lunch and dinner." Accustomed as they were to Continental cities, they were surprised that "New York...
...valley where the poppies somehow give off a new blood color to the taproot and make it redder by virtue of the selfsame blood that gave this country birth. And this morning she is there in that manger. Why, she has been feeding all of her babies on oatmeal soup for a week, please God, with the aid of her husband while she lies there without any sort of comfort whatever...