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Word: spicing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found her audience patiently waiting, and between 1 and 4 o'clock in the morning presented The Barretts of Wimpole Street, sustained only by one egg rustled up for her at 2 a.m. by Producer Guthrie McClintic. There is a story about Editor Robert Quillen, who used to spice his Fountain Inn (S.C.) Tribune with genealogical notices like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wit's End | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...Sugar & Spice. Last year, still stuck with its anachronistic fixed charges, M. & St. L. once again turned in a whopping bookkeeping deficit. But this year, war boomed it into a profit even before the reorganization officially cut its debt to $2,015,000, and the road proudly turned down a $4,000,000 RFC loan because it had enough cash of its own. For the first eight months of 1943, M. & St. L., no longer limping, earned over $2,000,000-enough sugar & spice to pay its new small fixed charges more than 20 times over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Up Comes the M. & St. L | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 6423=A Rose | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...synthesize nutmeg, Crocker analyzed the natural spice with his tongue and nose, then tried hundreds of chemical combinations to get the right shades of odor and flavor. The result was a compound of more than 40 different ingredients, including several varieties each of phenols, alcohols, esters and aldehydes. All these were mixed in a meal ground to nutmeg's consistency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 6423=A Rose | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By R. MARJORY Willoughby, | Title: Greeting A Ripple | 7/16/1943 | See Source »

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