Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still had a good deal of money, and when he discovered that the real hero of his fire had been completely overlooked, he tried to set the affair to rights. But partly because the other man was a Communist, partly because Charlie's story was now old stuff, no one would pay any attention to him. He looked for Ida, but the cinema studios knew her not. Eventually, of course, he found her again; and the upshot, of course, was happy...
...means of a unique collection of slides, taking all literature as its province, Mr. Hersey creates in his students a nostalgia for Old World traditions which attest European Man's brilliant history of Desire and Dreams. And nostalgia, is after all, the stuff of inspiration. The emotional compulsion of such titles as "The London of Dickens" and "Stevenson's Scotland" is second only to that of the slide lectures themselves...
Pantothenic Acid apparently is a common ingredient of all living stuff. Professor Roger John Williams (Oregon State Agricultural College), who discovered the substance with his associate Carl M. Lyman, has found it in humans, worms, oysters, plant molds, bacteria and algae. Declared they: "It is probably safe to say that it is more widely distributed in Nature than any known physiologically potent substance." Data so far accumulated indicates that pantothenic acid's molecule is composed of long chains of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, that it contains no sulphur or nitrogen. The stuff is potent. A speck of Professor Williams...
...stranger joined the line. After an hour's shuffling forward, he was given a sticky handful of some noisome stuff. He asked the surly clerk for change, was told there was no change in the store. He patiently asked for wrapping paper. The clerk jeered, "Afraid you'll get your hands soiled?" The stranger asked, "Where is the manager?" The clerk handed him a piece of newspaper to wrap his handful, told him the manager was "upstairs somewhere." Upstairs he went, gingerly hold- ing his handful. Clerks sent him from department to department for more than an hour...
...headed the Soviet commission inspecting U. S. railways, had been Vice Commissar of Transportation. When the manager of Store 134 came cringing into view, Premier Sulimov roared, "Do you call this soap?" and hurled the handful on the floor. His preliminary investigation showed that the stuff had been made from garbage, that several manufacturing and distributing officials had diverted the fats assigned for Soviet soap, sold them for their own profit...