Word: yeasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gawky, homely, his weighty trunk swaying upon long parabolic legs, he first barnstormed the rural counties as a burlesque "Little Eva" in a golden wig on a ladder to heaven. He turned yeast salesman, then ward politician. His grin and "Well, now, folks?" won him a larger majority than Indianapolis gave to Novelist Booth Tarkington when the two ran together (one for Recorder and the other for the Legislature) on the ticket...
Yesterday's Yeast...
...Significance of a new Wells book nowadays is somewhat the same as one more cake of yeast in a maturing batch of beer. To the enormous public that reads him, Mr. Wells long since imparted the whole quality, if not the whole quantity, of his fine ferment. Meanwhile might have started up a great fizzing two decades ago when Mr. Wells was building time-machines and worlds beyond the Milky...
...Capt. Ugo V. d'Annunzio (son of the poet) is President of Isotta Motors, Inc. of Manhattan, the U. S. agency for Isotta-Fraschini automobiles ($15,000 and upward). He, well acclimatized, is an exponent of the U. S. take-a-cake-of-yeast habit...
Potent Moonlight: Light vibrations given a definite direction are said to be polarized. Sunlight reflected by sea, snow, sky is partially polarized; moonlight is largely polarized. To find the influence of polarized light on living organisms, it was played on yeast, bacteria, sick rats. The growth of yeast, bacteria was stimulated. The sick rats soon died.?Dr. David I. Macht, Johns Hopkins University...