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There is some great smelling going on in Cambridge, Mass. It has to do, among other things, with spices. One of the most difficult things to reproduce in the laboratory is a spice. A natural spice is an extremely subtle blend of many ingredients, and the absence of even a trace of a key ingredient may make a big difference in odor and taste. Therefore, attempts to find out how to synthesize spices by chemical analysis have not been successful. But an inventive Cambridge chemist named Ernest Charlton Crocker has just produced three synthetic spices very close to the real...
...future. But why think of proving more interesting? Monday mornings at Briggs are on the way to becoming the most interesting and enlightening silence is broken when the "after-break the "tall" and "short" stories of the week-end! These breaks in the west really furnish the spice for our daily menu of work and it is amazing how difficult it sometimes becomes on Sunday nights to do simple arithmetic after a strenuous week...
...spice and vigor might have pulled so trite a story out of the doldrums, but the author has failed to do anything more than produce a pale imitation of what Broun was driving at. And the leisurely pace of the direction doesn't help much either...
Afterward Mrs. J. E. Pigott, wife of a Tylertown merchant, helped the Secretary to dinner. On his paper plate she heaped fried chicken, chicken pie, potato salad, warm spice cake, two kinds of pie. "This is a great idea," he beamed...
Marines take it all with sardonic cheerfulness, with a smile or wisecrack. When the Japanese fail to provide excitement Mother Nature steps in. Last night there was an earthquake shock to spice the routine...