Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dahlias contain a starch called inulin. If the tubers are heated and squeezed by a giant hydraulic press, the inulin can be recovered and converted into a syrup which yields fructose, the sugar in fruits. Since this sugar is the most easily oxidized of all sugars and twice as sweet as cane or beet sugar, it might be assimilated in small quantities by diabetics, might flavor the food of fat persons who wish to reduce. Properly cultivated, dahlias yield as much sugar, acre for acre, as do sugar beets...
...been with the Orphanage for 38 years, Band No. 2 had been at Saratoga, N. Y. where the horseracing season opened early this month (TIME, Aug. 12). Day & night at the race track, at baseball games and on the spa's Broadway the hard-working youngsters played spirituals, sweet ballads and hot arrangements of tunes like Dinah and Sweet Sue on their rusty cornets, trombones, French horns, drums. Bystanders were especially taken with Band No. 2's impish 12-year-old leader who juggled his baton, shimmied vigorously...
Also getting out, shepherded by sweet-faced Italian nuns with faint mustaches, were numerous bright-eyed little girls of assorted colors, daughters of Italians who have gone native in Ethiopia but made pious provision for their bastards by founding a convent school. Said an Italian consular official as he put the little girls on the train: "They are the future mothers of a new, nobler generation that is going to inhabit the country that was called Ethiopia...
...Alimony Reform League of New York State has been prying into the psychology of women who have their onetime mates jailed for nonpayment of alimony. Lately Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, distinguished Stanford University psychologist, after tabulating the results of a questionnaire, described the typical divorced woman as lacking "sweet femininity" but possessing "rugged strength, self-sufficiency and detached tolerance" (TIME, June 24). But Dr. Terman had no evidence that any of his rugged women were keeping their husbands in jail. The questionnaire which Mr. Anthony sent to jailing wives netted him -besides 109 blanks returned without comment, 29 vituperative letters...
Last week the Department of Agriculture, in high good humor, informed waiting husbandmen that 1935 crop prospects were, with the exception of potatoes, sweet potatoes and rice, spectacularly better than last year's. Barley was due for the second biggest crop in history. The rye harvest, which last year was the poorest in 40 years, will be so big this year that AAA has already made plans for a crop reduction program. Despite floods and a cold, wet spring in the Central States, the corn crop was running 50% better than last year. Whereas on April i the Govern...