Word: tannins
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...Wine," said he, "contains and carries to the human organism ... a complex of mineral materials (calcium salts, potassium, iron, sodium and many more), of organic materials (alcohols, sugar, glycerine, organic acids, tannin, ether, alde-hydes), of vitamins, and diverse mineral substances. Because of these different things wine, for a healthy man who makes habitual use of it, excites the appetite, stimulates the motor and secretive functions . . . and helps the whole digestion ... It favors general nutrition and the stability of a man's humor...
...tree, but his wife has to carry it home. He hates to garden, so subtropical Asunción imports most of its vegetables. He makes an average $6 a year selling cotton, the hides of cattle, yerba mat é(for Argentina's tea-like national drink) and tannin from quebracho. Politics is pretty new to him, and the big talk of an alliance with Argentina in a bloque austral is outside his world. But if Argentines, or anybody else, get fresh, he is perfectly confident that with a few other Paraguayans he can take care of the situation...
...commercial workers (13,171). The annual per capita income of the 1¼ million population is only $6. Because there is just one 274-mile railway and little more than 500 miles of improved roads, oxcarts still carry the bulk of the country's cotton, tobacco, quebracho extract (tannin...
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...