Word: yeast
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another visiting journalist, France's Louis Martin-Chauffier, last week summed up the U.S.: "Good dough without yeast." Wrote he in the Paris Liberation: "American society is tough, commanded by the tough law of profit, by the even tougher law of the struggle for existence, reducing man either to a machine or to a nervous being straining simultaneously for the conquest of comfort and for self-defense...
...Yeast from beech wood: 100 tons of wood yields seven tons of yeast and 50 tons of cellulose...
Britain's general election and France's cantonal elections had shown how the yeast of suffering and liberation had leavened men's minds. Last week...
...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...