Word: sproute
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...Funsters in a dining hall selling spree, swept a waitress off her feet to the tune of four $100 bonds. Another resident bought a $500 bond, putting Dunster over this week's quota and this plus other sales equals 45 per cent of her total quota. William L. Sprout '47, is chairman of their drive...
...chairmen of the bond committees in each of the three civilian Houses are: David Dorman '46, Adams House, William L. Sprout '47, Dunster House, and Richard W. Hall '47, Lowell House...
...terms of captured territory, Japan made all its gains south and west of Formosa and the Carolines in less than a year. The Allies, on the other hand, have spent a year sending that little sprout up from Moumea to Guadalcanal and Munda and those tiny arterioles out from Port Moresby to Finschhaven in the north and to the Woodlark Islands off Milne Bay in the east. The difference is that no one was dug in to delay the Japs, whereas the Japs, who are diggers extraordinary, have consolidated themselves. Their arteries are hardened...
...Soybean sprouts. Grown indoors in a flower pot or jar, they can be raised the year round from dried field soybeans, sprout in five days or less, can be cooked as quickly as a pork chop, have several times as much vitamin B complex as the bean itself, rival tomatoes in vitamin C. A crisp, tasty dish, they have been a staple of the Chinese diet for centuries...
...housewives, short of meat and likely to remain so for the duration, were turning to an ancient makeshift-bean sprouts. Said Dr. C. M. McCay, of the school of nutrition at Cornell: Why not? Sprouted soybeans, in his opinion, are a good meat substitute. They are high in protein and fat, are not starchy, have higher vitamin C content than unsprouted beans. Biggest advantage: they grow quickly (some sprout in three days), can be raised right in the kitchen, in any container where they can be kept clean, dark, damp...