Word: peanut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grill, over their "peanut betweens" and "Garbo with jams" (English muffins with jam), Exonians last week had two distressing subjects to chew over. They had just lost, 7-to-18, the Big Game with rival Andover, 28 miles away. And their headmaster, tweedy, well-loved Lewis Perry, 68, who had long talked of quitting, had now made it official...
...Carnochan and C. N. Wentworth Cumming. They already had a plant at New City. With Government aid, production zoomed from some 5,000 to 15,000 mice a week (price: 25? a mouse). Old. blue-blooded European strains, in danger of war extermination, were crated, bedded down on peanut shells, and flown to New City. By mid-1944, the famine was licked. By 1945, cutbacks were ordered, although specialized shortages still existed...
...Martha Berry, a Georgia schoolmarm, once asked Ford for a $1,000,000 donation to her country school, was listened to politely but received only a Ford dime. Undaunted, she used the dime to start a peanut crop, solemnly sent Ford detailed annual accountings of each year's harvest, eventually bought a piano with the profits of the 100 worth of seeds. Ford was impressed, eventually visited the Berry School, square-danced to the piano, finally came across with more than the $1,000,000 Miss Berry originally asked...
Using penicillin dissolved in water, treatment was gradually worked down to three hypodermic injections two hours apart. Then came the discovery, announced last year (TIME, Sept. 11), that penicillin mixed with beeswax and peanut oil is disseminated slowly through the body, keeping the penicillin content of blood high for hours. The Public Health Service acted swiftly. To 137 doctors throughout the land went instructions and the penicillin mixture with the request that they try single injections of 200,000 units (2 cc.) on as many patients as possible and report the results. Back came results on 1,060 cases: over...
...rate, the way things are now the peanut-galleryites will have the breaks, if they keep Queen Bess and the Globe Theatre in mind, and the people in the orchestra will be peasants, even if they won't have to stand...