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Word: syrups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...formation of gallstones, says Dr. Benmosché, is very like the process of cooking old-fashioned rock candy. In candymaking, slender threads are dropped into syrup, and sugar crystallizes around the threads. In the formation of gallstones: 1) the juices in the gall bladder become thickened by bacterial infection; 2) delicate cells drop off the bladder walls into the cavity, combine with the thick juices to form a tiny core; 3) cholesterol (one of the solids in bile) gathers around the nucleus, hardens into a stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Speaking of Operations | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...business is professional prescription work. Mr. Mahoney considers his soda, cigarettes, and candy supply only a necessary evil. There aren't any swivel-stools in front of the soda fountain. But business along that line is good enough to warrent the presence of two great barrels of Coca-Cola syrup among the "reserves supplies" down cellar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/15/1940 | See Source »

...movies, is a plausible and funny Elmer. Marvelous to witness was the enthusiasm with which he tore through food at each performance. In the course of an hour and a half as Elmer, he consumes a slice of ham, a batch of fried potatoes, four griddle cakes with syrup, a piece of pie, two cups of coffee, two apples, half a grapefruit, a glass of orange juice, two doughnuts, a slice of toast and a bit of shad roe. Only recently released from a Los Angeles hospital, where (after an auto accident) he spent over six months in a cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Elmer | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...John Garner's avowed birthplace was a log cabin no longer existing on Blossoms Prairie in East Texas, though it was not the nifty Log Cabin Maple Syrup-like cabin of 1932 campaign posters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...quiz program, for Chocolate Products Co. (syrup), over a CBS California network 10 to 10:30 a.m. P.S.T. Saturdays : Stillicious Kids' Quizaroo. Sample poser: Shirley Temple is an ancient Greek ruin. True or false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Shows | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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