Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairmen of the bond committees in each of the three civilian Houses are: David Dorman '46, Adams House, William L. Sprout '47, Dunster House, and Richard W. Hall '47, Lowell House...
...terms of captured territory, Japan made all its gains south and west of Formosa and the Carolines in less than a year. The Allies, on the other hand, have spent a year sending that little sprout up from Moumea to Guadalcanal and Munda and those tiny arterioles out from Port Moresby to Finschhaven in the north and to the Woodlark Islands off Milne Bay in the east. The difference is that no one was dug in to delay the Japs, whereas the Japs, who are diggers extraordinary, have consolidated themselves. Their arteries are hardened...
...Soybean sprouts. Grown indoors in a flower pot or jar, they can be raised the year round from dried field soybeans, sprout in five days or less, can be cooked as quickly as a pork chop, have several times as much vitamin B complex as the bean itself, rival tomatoes in vitamin C. A crisp, tasty dish, they have been a staple of the Chinese diet for centuries...
...housewives, short of meat and likely to remain so for the duration, were turning to an ancient makeshift-bean sprouts. Said Dr. C. M. McCay, of the school of nutrition at Cornell: Why not? Sprouted soybeans, in his opinion, are a good meat substitute. They are high in protein and fat, are not starchy, have higher vitamin C content than unsprouted beans. Biggest advantage: they grow quickly (some sprout in three days), can be raised right in the kitchen, in any container where they can be kept clean, dark, damp...
Down the first base line of the Varsity diamond, the groundkeeper is wheeling his lining barrow, but instead of dribbling lime, it sprinkles seeds which will soon sprout into lusty egg-plants. Then peek in the Stadium itself. Hundreds of stout Radclifflians, wearing yellow yellow badges labeled "Official," are milling about on what used to be the scene of historic gridiron duels. But now the turf is being torn up in long, deep-brown furrows. And the old familiar chant of "Rah-rah-rah" that formerly echoed through the Stadium of a weekend afternoon has given place...