Word: yeasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from our offices so our researchers and writers could always get in touch with him. Its walls are lined with yards of scientific books and papers, and its closets are packed less with clothes than with new products and gadgets-fabrics made from glass, steaks and biscuits made from yeast, three-dimensional photographs in full color, a portable cosmic ray detector, portraits painted in fluorescent paints that can be seen only in the dark. (One of his prized possessions is a Krazy Kat cartoon -"Why is somebody always trying to smash the poor I'll adam...
Snigeroff's Nose. Drunkenness was regarded as an affliction rather than a misdemeanor. Nobody except Helen minded the endless consumption of a beverage brewed by "tossing sugar, flour and yeast-and sometimes a handful of rice or half-rotten fruit-into a dirty butter barrel" filled with water and allowing the mess to "make" for four days. "Don't be silly," said Thornie, dismissing Helen's alarm at the battle royal which invariably accompanied this wassail. "The boys are just having a good time. Just like kids. . .They really enjoy...
West Pointer Darby was a soldier's soldier, undismayed by his command's suicidal missions, full of cool recklessness and the yeast of humor and enthusiasm. At Gela, with 18 blackfaced men, he caught 52 Italian officers holed up in a hotel, unhesitatingly went in with grenades and automatics, killed or captured all. Once, with one companion, he took on a tank with a .50-caliber machine gun and knocked...
Best known of these industrial microorganisms is yeast, whose appetite for the carbohydrates in beets, sugar cane, wood, and other fibrous vegetable matter made possible the production in 1944 of about 638 million gallons of alcohol-grain and wood. But the yeasts are only one group of the microbic multitude able to perform specific jobs. Bacteria resembling the bacilli of human ailments and molds like mildew have also been put to work in industry...
Despite their humble origins, microbes are as temperamental as coloraturas. They are fussy about temperature, about food, and about the company they keep. Some like plenty of air, some like none, and some govern their behavior according to whether they get it or not. In an airless, quiet place, yeast will produce wine ; in air it just reproduces itself. To keep such un reliable workers healthy, happy, and productive is the responsibility of a growing new species of industrial scientist, the biological engineer. His job: to reproduce on a factory scale biological processes and conditions none too easy to control...