Word: tannin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brill gained notoriety last year as the host to several score undergraduates at a series of "Afternoons for Tannin Tipplers." Chief feature of the teas was a tirade against J. P. Marquand '14, who, as author of the best-selling novel, "Wickford Point," which intimately sketched "The Brills," a decadent New England family, was the arch-enemy of the Sophomore's parents and grand-parents...
...Puerto Sastre. Population 5,000, with an investment of 2,000,000 gold pesos in the tannin and cattle industries...
...reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred and leprous, the Indians had multiplied to 800,000 by 1932, living chiefly on maize and mandioca bread, exporting yerba maté tea, tinned meat and tannin from the Gran Chaco's quebracho tree...
Tannic acid (or tannin) is the leatherizing element in oak, sumach and other plants. It is tannin in tea which makes a strong infusion pucker the mouth...
Bolivia's economic objective was an outlet to the Paraguay River and thence to the Atlantic Ocean; little Paraguay's objectives were land and the tannin from the quebracho tree. To stop the war that has never been declared, three sets of peace makers including a neutral commission in Washington, a League of Nations observation commission and the ABCP group of neighbors (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru) had done nothing. When it was winning last December, Paraguay wanted no peace in the bog. Last week advancing Bolivia wanted no peace, suggested a 30-to 60-day armistice to bring...