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Word: sours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original Institute in Paris. The first was at Saigon. The Tunis vintners knew of Pasteur's work only that he was able to keep beer from spoiling and silkworms from dying. They demanded that the French Government, their overlord, send them men to prevent their wine turning sour. The French established the Tunis Pasteur Institute (1893), where the scientists quickly learned what spoiled Tunis wine. Then they turned, as Pasteur had turned, to discovering the causes, cures and preventions of human and animal diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nobel Prize | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...disregarded. It will not be. The gamble of the ticket draw and the subsequent seats in the wooden stands are minor hazards that will affect only the undergraduates. They add actually to the zest of the occasion. A remote view of the game is not sufficient to sour enthusiasm for the rest of the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: InterLude | 10/27/1928 | See Source »

...forces of conciliation won? Secretary Turati decided that if they had, he would sour the wine of their victory. He published an edict prohibiting all imported (therefore, French) wines at Fascist dinners or militia messes. As everyone knows, most Italian wines are totally without merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Brouhaha | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...first, introduced it to the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe, who fed it to their German friends, who brought it to the U. S., where it was first made commercially in St. Louis. Some physicians recommend sauerkraut for constipation, intestinal putrefaction, because the lactic acid responsible for the sour taste keeps down the birthrate of putrefying bugs. * Furfural, a chemical compound made from corncobs or oat hulls, once a museum curiosity, is now used in the preparation of synthetic resin as bakelite; in the preservation of railroad ties, telegraph poles, shingles; in the flavoring of tobacco; the solvents of shoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Farmers' Friends | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...meet by the starbright brook, and plan to marry when the hay is in. Not till weeks after Joe has been killed horribly in an accident, does Naomi realize to her joy that he lives on in the child she bears. But her joyless parents, stiff-necked with the sour self-righteous Protestantism of the '80s, snatch up the offer of "noble" Caleb to take Naomi and give her bastard a name. Naomi suffers untold husbandly violations from Caleb, but comforts herself that some day she will tell Brook, her daughter and Joe's, of the beautiful passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brook's Namesake | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

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