Word: tartaric
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...trench mortar shell that fell short. After a while the steel train backed sulkily off again. Twice more, at dawn and at 7:40 a. m., the train lunged at Peiping, blasting away with a 3-in. gun, once getting through the railway tunnel into the Tartar City before it went backing & filling out of sight...
...Manhattan Co. was founded 136 years ago to supply the City of New York with "pure & wholesome water." Not so well known is the fact that Manhattan's $575,000,000 Chemical Bank & Trust was originally chartered 112 years ago to manufacture "blue vitriol, alum, alcohol, tartar emetic, refined camphor, borax, copperas, drugs, medicines, paints and dyers' colors." Like its elder rival, Chemical got into banking by opening an office of ''Discount & Deposit...
Acid for Wine. An expert chemist's advice for aging wine rapidly: "All young wine contains cream of tartar and tartaric acid. It usually requires several years of aging for the precipitation of excess tartar during the process of fermentation, and after the conclusion thereof. ... By addition of calcium malate in proper proportions to wine, even when young, and agitating it for a short time, any proportion of tartaric acid desired can be removed, leaving the malic acid to replace the natural constituent of grapes...
...working for the summer as a forest ranger in Montana, was not very good at his job. His attention wandered, he pined for society, he often went fishing when he should have been patrolling his range. Nobody but Harry would have lasted very long under such a single-minded tartar as "Nosey" Durham, who was proud of having the best-patrolled district in the country. Even Durham's wife, though she had cause to complain of his lack of ardor, respected and feared his virility. But Harry had such a winning way with him that his boss never fired...
...Because it was first on the list, argol, a tartar sediment in wine casks, gave its name to that provision of the Dingley Tariff (1897) which authorized a President to negotiate reciprocity agreements on a few articles with other nations. "Argols" were back in last week's news as a result of White House conferences on ways & means of carrying out the Democratic tariff platform. The Constitution requires the Senate's "advice and consent" on most international agreements made by the President. The Roosevelt method apparently is going to be: get the "advice" first in the form...