Word: vitaminous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Busily tugging the teats of some of her husband's cows last week was Mrs. Carla de Vries, the woman who kissed Adolf Hitler at the Olympic Games last year (TIME, Aug. 24, 1936, et seq.). George de Vries' 1,000-cow Vitamin D Dairy in Norwalk near Los Angeles was strike-bound by C. I. O.'s Dairy Workers' Union. Plodding up & down the picket line led by a striking herdsman was a placid Jersey cow bearing the placard: I WON'T BE MILKED BY A SCAB...
Swiftly social censers moved to block further error, taking the stand that "lawns need no decorating". Handed down "per order Chief Justice" were decisions regarding proper places to sunbathe. Henceforth inquisitive Harvard-men may expect to find vitamin D enthusiasts half nude--behind the observatory, wholly nude--the solarium...
...outer cylinder remains at room temperature or may be cooled. A vacuum pump exhausts air from the space between the two cylinders. When the vacuum has been created, the liquid to be distilled flows down over the surface of the warm inner cylinder. As the liquid flows, molecules of vitamin A or D or other light substances pop off, jump the inter-cylinder gap, condense on the inner wall of the bigger cylinder. Condensed, they dribble down into a container, while the heavier fluid flowing down the inner cylinder runs off into a second pair of evacuated cylinders...
Europeans use vacuum distillation to strip the flavor ingredients and vitamins from butter. Their vitamin concentrates are reported free from all taste, stable and suitable for mixture with foods. They also sublime hormones from urine, soap stock from fish, caffeine from coffee, quinine from cinchona bark...
Grasshoppers "contain considerable quantities of vitamin A and are also rich in vitamin B-1," said Dr. David I. Macht of Baltimore...