Word: sulphureous
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Alan Valentine, 48, tall, handsome university president (Rochester) on leave (also Freeport Sulphur Co., Bausch & Lomb Optical Co.), was EGA chief in The Hague. He had come to The Netherlands at Paul Hoffman's persuasion, leaving two children in schools at home. He worked from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., running a 41-man mission, visiting plants, farms, talking with business groups, trying (as he put it) "to get four or five important things done per day, but usually settling...
...weeks. But what did these signs portend? Alarmists detected evidence of galloping depression. Others believed that it was just a case of a leveling-off of prices, that the patient's chart looked good and that nothing was needed but some turnip greens and a good belt of sulphur & molasses...
...Royal Rupert 99, son of the famous Hereford, Hazford Rupert 81, was calved on March 23, 1942 on the Sulphur (Okla.) ranch of Roy Turner, now governor of Oklahoma. As Rupert approached adolescence, his general shape and beefiness (as well as his distinguished ancestry) gave promise that he would develop into a bull of bulls. On Jan. 10, 1944, he was sold, unproven, to Glad Acres Farms at Dallas for $38,000-a record for white-faced Herefords...
...they taste or smell the way they do is still unknown. The chemical characteristics of a compound may have little to do with its taste. Cane sugar (sucrose) contains only carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, but it tastes much like saccharin, whose quite different molecule has nitrogen and sulphur atoms...
...daring assertion that, as Communists, they could hold opinions in conflict with the party line. As Italians waited to see what-if anything-happened to the rebels, Painter Guttuso went back to work, put the finishing touches on a new picture, Sulphur Miners, wooden thighs...