Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outstanding army medical research worker throughout the Spanish-American War, General Russell introduced the U. S. Army to the use of anti-typhoid vaccine. He invented the Russell double-sugar medium for cultivation of typhoid bacilli, there by permitting the isolation of the baccilli for study...
...played. It is so universally cheapened in the cannonball these days that an accurate performance is become a curiosity. Conductors think that to interpret Tchaikowski means whipping themselves up into a fine poetic frenzy, and loading the music with trite sentimentality. As a result it has sounded cheap and sugar-coated, has rung sour on men's ears, and turned them to music less easily perverted by a conductor's bad taste. It is all very well to invoke the old formulate and say that Tchaikowski wrung sublimity from an anguished soul. But if for no other reason than this...
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...Editor who failed to include Hawaii and Puerto Rico in the U. S., a sharp rebuke. It is quite true that the U.S.collects some $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 more in sugar taxes than it pays out in benefits; true also that the tax of about ½? a lb. is originally paid by processors. But after deducting about $47,000,000 net revenue to the Government from sugar taxes and duty, U. S. consumers pay, according to Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, between $215,000,000 and $250,000,000 extra each year for their sugar (at current prices...
...usual, Sir John spoke in such low tones that most of the House had to strain and cup ears, this time for 127 minutes. He refreshed himself occasionally with a few drops of Lady Simon's personally concocted throat mixture (lemon juice, brown sugar and honey), sipped gingerly from a tiny horn...