Word: skim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observant realistic comedy of banal family life, it is probably closer to the U. S. common denominator than Our Town or Life with Father. Much more of this life is skim milk or spilt milk than cream. It is a chronicle of vanishing dreams and growing regrets, of crotchets and quirks, affection and annoyance, gossip and eavesdropping, small skeletons in large closets. It fails to be drab because, at 70, its people are still kicking their heels, raising their voices, cocking their ears. They talk ridiculous bromides, but with passion ; they make absurd gestures, but with feeling. They...
...silly to spend only a day or two in Paris. I have to report now and get my orders and I am ready to go to work." Donna Cora Caetani of Italy, one of Europe's best-dressed women, sporting a wool-like suit and sweater made of skim milk, brought 70 dresses synthesized from milk, wood, reeds, to be shown at the Fair's Italian Pavilion. Attending the dedication of the "Roadway of Tomorrow" at the Ford Motor Co. building were Henry Ford, 75, Son Edsel Bryant Ford, 45, and Grandson Henry Ford II, 22, a Yale...
...fifths of an ounce of salt, tor maintaining the water balance in body tissues; the same quantity of brewers' yeast, for vitamin B; one-twelfth of an ounce of cod-liver oil, for vitamin A; half a lemon twice weekly, for vitamin C. If two ounces of dried skim-milk powder are available, brewers' yeast can be omitted. Other corrections: growing children need more cod-liver oil and skim-milk powder than adults, but less salt. If lemons or oranges are not available, the committee suggests that scurvy can be avoided by steeping any nonpoisonous green leaves...
...superficiality proved to some degree by Chicago University, survey courses are practical for a plan of study which, because of the failure of the secondary schools, must teach the fundamental ideas of the world. It is even possible to design survey courses, so that they will do more than skim the surface...
...used in "some fields of life-science-for example, in genetics, for charting the occurrence of hereditary variations-and a great many biological processes have been reduced to chemical equations. But chemical equations are essentially descriptive. They assert that certain substances combine or dissociate to form other substances, but skim over the fundamental physical processes...