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...impulsive and emotional Mitch may find himself feeling so much better that he needs must carry on. Cried sprinting Minister Croll after anxious cogitation: "Mr. Hepburn can't quit! We won't let him." Assuming that he does quit, Hepburn, will return to his 600-acre cattle, onion and celery farm. There he was born and there at three years of age, according to his fond mother, he lisped, "I want to be a Politician...
...into very thin slices 1 onion, 1 small carrot, 1 stick of celery. Melt 1 oz. butter in a stewpan and fry with vegetables for a few minutes without browning. Add 2½ lb. tomatoes, cut into slices, and cook for a few more minutes. Add 2 pints of water, small clove of garlic and bunch of herbs...
...nose & throat specialists argued the persistence of onion and garlic odor on the breath was due to: 1) the essential, odorous oil of such vegetables passing into the blood stream during digestion, being aerated from the blood into the lungs, and then being expired; 2) the essential oil appearing in the saliva by secretion from the blood passing through the salivary glands; 3) the odor passing up into the mouth from the stomach during digestion...
...first opportunity Dr. Haggard and his laboratory Associate Chemist Leon A. Greenberg rigged up the following apparatus at New Haven: a large glass tube through which the experimenters couid exhale into bottles containing fluids having affinities for garlic and onion odors; a gas meter to measure the amount of breath Drs. Haggard and Greenberg exhaled; a suction pump to pull their breath through the detector apparatus...
Four hours after eating a big slice of "an ordinary culinary onion of domestic growth, of medium size and fairly pungent.'' every quart of Dr. Haggard's breath contained one-billionth of an ounce of onion oil (allyl propyl disulfide). "The odor was still detectable by the sense of smell...