Word: vinegared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hopes to reduce the accident rate some 20 to 25% in the next year. But FSO's Colonel Harris puts his finger on the problem: "Take a kid full of vinegar and new flying skill, put a parachute on him and strap a shiny, powerful airplane on to him, and you have one of the finest combinations for trouble in the world...
...sumptuous. During the Revolution, a soldier was issued daily (if he got it) 1 Ib. of meat, 6 oz. of bread, 1 pt. of milk, rice, 1 qt. of spruce beer. He had to do his cooking himself. The War of 1812 added another item to the list: vinegar, which was mixed with sugar and water to make a highly regarded tonic. In the Civil War, Union soldiers got 20 oz. of beef, 22 oz. of bread,* 2½ oz. of beans, rice, green coffee, sugar, vinegar. Pepper was added to the menu in 1863. The daily cost...
Patriarch George Washington Carver, who hobbles benignly about Tuskegee's campus, is an artist. But he is better known as the greatest Negro scientist alive, the man who pioneered new uses for Southern agricultural products, developed 285 new uses for the peanut, got 118 products, including vinegar, molasses and shoe blacking, from the South's surplus sweet potatoes. In his laboratory he and his assistants also make paints and dyes from the red Alabama clay, the oil of the Alabama peanut, with which he paints the natural phenomena he sees around him: birds, fruit, flowers, mountain vistas...
...first two-level ceiling of this type was established last fortnight over acetic acid. For acetic acid (familiar to housewives as the basic ingredient of vinegar) made by the inexpensive synthetic method, the maximum is 6.25? a lb. But for natural acid the maximum...
...nutritious than straw. ^ The smallest possible amount of water should be used for cooking; see that the water boils before vegetables are added. They should be cooked very rapidly in a covered pan, served at once. Use left-over water for soups, gravies, boiling other vegetables. ^ Salt, sugar or vinegar added to cooking water preserves vitamins. Never add soda to save color-it destroys vitamins...