Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed Amendment is purely an Enabling Act and therefore does not exempt farm work and domestic duties. These ex- emptions properly belong in the act passed under the Amendment. Ex- cept for work in the sugar-beet fields, and in gardening, children do not suffer from these duties and the idea that they would be prohibited is ridiculous...
...injections are troublesome, expensive, often painful. Come Mendel, Wittgenstein, Wolffenstein, three wise men of Berlin, professors at the University there. They have made insulin into pills; not such pills as are wont to be taken by candlelight with a sob, a gulp of water and a lump of sugar. No, for insulin dissolves in the juices of the stomach and becomes virtueless. These pills melt in the mouth like very sugar, but, unlike sugar, they melt into the body direct, are absorbed through the pores of the tongue. The effect is reported to equal that of injections. Thus...
...University authorities announced yesterday that Dr. W. H. Weston, assistant professor of botany at the University, has been granted leave of absence for the second half of the current academic year, to continue in Cuba some phases of the study and control of the sugar cane Mosaic diseases. Dr. Weston received his master's degree from the University in 1912 and his Ph.D. in 1915. He began his study of the sugar cane diseases with Dr. East at Soledad last February, and continued last summer in Cuba with the Tropical Plant Research Foundation...
...supplementary report of the Tariff Commission, in regard to the question of whether the President should raise, lower or leave unchanged the tariff on sugar, came to the White House, where the President was formulating his decision...
...exalted one of physical ill-health. On the other hand, there have been daring iconoclasts no less superlative in their attacks upon this knight of the spotless scutcheon? notably W. E. Henley, his erstwhile patron and intimate, who registered savage protest against the "Seraph in Chocolate," the "Barley-Sugar Effigy" of legend. With nicely considered moderation, Mr. Steuart aims at the truth behind the haze of contradiction...