Word: potful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, July 15, you err in that while your English way of making soup is the autochthonous English soup, in your French method you give an intellectualized, wholly professional basic recipe. If that be the French method, how do you explain the national soup of all France, the pot-au-feu which like the English and all European national and regional soups starts with water into which things are put, not "thrown," methodically and with an uncanny sense of measure; brought to completion diversely to be sure according to national characteristics, climate and tradition...
...nearly perfect sample of self-made middle-class Englishman is Harold Keates Hales, M. P. Short, red-faced, hearty, with a good opinion of his own wits, an honest satisfaction with his eccentricities, he wears a stand-up "jam pot" collar and claims to be the only automobile driver in the world who has never once blown his horn. The energy piled up by this repression Mr. Hales has variously discharged by flying an airship around St. Paul's Cathedral (1908), achieving one of the first airplane crashes (1910), pushing and plodding ahead in the china and exporting businesses...
...some man who was supposed to have had an acute attack of indigestion or cerebral hemorrhage or heart failure, and the chances are the only thing that was the matter with him was that he had swallowed some improperly cooked oysters. . . . now I will give my recipe for pot likker...
Newshawks at the White House could not miss it: Franklin Roosevelt's mood had changed. His whole legislative program was in the pot and boiling. At last everything was coming to a head. The Social Securities Bill, the Banking Bill, the Utilities Bill, the Wagner Bill, the fate of NRA. And last week at that important juncture, suddenly the irritability which had marked his recent actions dropped from him. His "winter peeve" was over. Once more he was the President of two years past, taking the political initiative, breaking precedents with verve and satisfaction...
...they mean the death of the whole Universe. The Universe is being done to death, slowly but implacably, by the Second Law of Thermodynamics: The sum total of energy in Nature is continually passing from a higher degree of organization to a lower. A speeding train, a hot coffee pot, an inflated toy balloon represent organized energy; when the train stops, when the pot grows cold and the balloon is deflated, energy is scattered, dissipated, disorganized. Small reorganizations of energy are possible but always at the expense of a little greater disorganization. In such wise the total energy must...