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Lean, long-necked Clark, a better-than-average bowler as well as St. Paul municipal golf champion, split the narrow fairways with his long drives, chipped dead to the pin, took the starch out of jittery Dietz who tried hard to make a good showing before his home-town folks. At the end of the morning round, the match had become a rout, ended on the 30th green...
Future investigation may show that different physical types have different nutritional requirements. It is a commonplace that fat endomorphic people usually like sweet and starch foods-carbohydrates. Sheldon thinks it may turn out that a high carbohydrate diet is just what such people need...
...Supercharger." Glycogen, a form of starch manufactured in the liver, is the substance which the body uses for quick energy. When glycogen is consumed, lactic acid is produced-mostly a waste product since a good part of it breaks down into carbon dioxide and water. But some lactic acid is reconverted into glycogen, which is then available for further energy release. Last week Dr. George Bogdan Kistiakowsky and five co-workers of Harvard compared this operation to that of a gasoline engine supercharger, which uses the energy of exhaust gases to pump air at high pressure into the firing cylinders...
Mazein is Corn Products Refining Co.'s trade name for zein, a protein substance which occurs in corn. Chemist William Bentley Newkirk of Corn Products has spent seven years making mazein into a successful plastic. He obtains it from gluten-a residue of starch manufacture which is ordinarily sold as hog & cattle feed at 2? per lb.-by extracting it with solvents, purifying and precipitating it. The resultant plastic, soluble in both paint solutions and water, is a sort of cross between casein and bakelite. Uses: buttons, laminated boards, high-speed printing ink ingredient, waterproof and oilproof varnish...
...that new plywoods are as different from old "as a 1940 automobile from a vintage of 1910." Plywood is at least as old as 1900 B. C.-for a mummy case dated thereabouts, and discovered in Egypt, was made of it. But until recently the only glues available were starch glue from tapioca, blood albumin glue from slaughtered cattle and other animal glues. None of these was an adhesive that would "really stand up and fight with tension, torsion, or shear...