Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sponsor is a Houston rice broker named Gordon L. Harwell. A born pot-watcher, Harwell used to sit up late nights with a pressure cooker and a potful of paddy (rice in the husk) trying to cook up an improvement on conventional milling methods. In orthodox rice milling, machines first remove the husk (containing vitamin Bi), then the germ and several coats of bran (rich in fat, minerals and vitamin B complex), finally give forth a polished white kernel which has lost most of the vitamins and minerals in the original rough grain. (The husks are burned; the bran...
Frank Laubach has set up his charts for no less than 79 tongues, has recently been working on his 80th - Korean. Orthodox teachers have orthodox reservations about Laubach's teaching methods, but none whatever about the great success of his life work. Laubach himself gives full credit to God for sending him on a job at which he has "more fun than anybody else in the world." But he warns that reading, itself, is not enough-there must be the right kind of reading. "Democracy, Protestantism, and literacy are triplets...
...there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion...
...only three others-The Patriots, Harriet and Tomorrow the World-dealt seriously with anything. Entertainment held the field. Thornton Wilder's cockeyed The Skin of Our Teeth started ten thousand arguments, sold a quarter of a million seats and won the Pulitzer Prize. Oklahoma!, musicomedy's least orthodox offering in years, was also its most charming and successful. As Rosalinda, Johann Strauss's 6g-year-old, waltz-drenched Die Fledermaus became a surprise smash...
...enforced the rules of the 19th-Century economic game. The policies of free trade and continual overseas lending enabled the British to play the game itself with such successful results. The two policies were complementary, and it was the manner in which they were operated that made the orthodox gold standard, although clumsy, work as well...