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...strongly stressed: A shock awaits the fool who wavers Before he says, "Good-morning, Claverhouse." A burden of regret and woe Descends on those who Do Not Know, So I've endeavoured, in their cause, To jormulate some rhyming laws, Whereby the novice can with ease Preserve the starch amenities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Diabetes & Raw Starch. Washington's Sanford Morris Rosenthal has found that raw starches cause no permanent rise in the blood sugar of diabetes, whereas cooked starches created as much blood sugar as glucose would. Hence he urged diabetics to eat raw starches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physiological Congress | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Synthetic Milk. China's Ernest Tso ground up fresh water-soaked soy beans and mixed the pulp with cane sugar, corn or rice starch, cod liver oil, calcium lactate, sodium chloride, cabbage water. This synthetic milk nourished Chinese infants as well as normal diet would have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physiological Congress | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

There should never be starch in napkins, dresses, shirts, for starch is Chometz, which is leaven. The house must be thoroughly cleansed of Chometz. The night after the feast a father or a grandfather may tell the little ones of the house to say only half their prayers, for that night "God is nigh to his people." Thus may begin the holy feast of the Passover, symbolic of liberty, memorial to the exodus, and to the night when the Lord's angel slew the Egyptians' first-born but passed over and left unbereft the homes of the Israelites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Passover | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...denaturants, such as sulphuric ether, turpentine, benzol and animal oil, but methyl is generally employed. Thus when unskillful persons unsuccessfully attempt to take the denaturing out of denatured alcohol, the familiar phenomena of wood alcohol poisoning usually result. Ethyl alcohol can theoretically be made from any sugar, cellulose or starch-Germany, for instance, has a potato-alcohol industry-but in the U. S. alcohol is usually derived from sugar-cane molasses, cheap and easily fermentable. Uses. During 1928 (fiscal year ending June 30) the U. S. produced 92,418,025 wine gallons of industrial alcohol. Alcohol is used in making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ethyl, Methyl, Amyl | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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