ephemeral
• adjective lasting or living for a very short time.
“There remain some truths too ephemeral to be captured in the cold pages of a court transcript”
lasting a very short time; short -lived; transitory: the ephemeral joys of childhood. ...
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peripatetic
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Tea Bag is 100 years old
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1026125/Happy-birthday-brew-The-Great-British-Tea-Bag-100-Yank-thank.htmlThe tea bag as it marks its 100th birthday. But if it wasn't for a handful of confused Americans, the tea bag may never have made it into our cups at all.
They came about only after Mr Sullivan, in an attempt to cut costs, sent samples of tea leaves to potential customers in small silk pouch-like purses.
Unsure quite what to do with the strange little bag, the Americans dunked it into a cup of hot water. And so was born the tea bag.
After complaints that the mesh on the silk was too fine, Mr Sullivan developed sachets made of gauze - a method which was instrumental in today's tea bag design.
But it was not until 1953, when British tea producer Tetley spotted the commercial potential of the bag, that it began to take off here. The firm now sells 200million tea bags every week.
William Gorman, executive chairman of the UK Tea Council, said: 'Without a doubt the tea bag saved the tea industry.
'There is no way in our busy lifestyles today that we would have had the time or inclination to make tea the old way.'
Tea drinking is seen as a quintessential British tradition, with 130million cups drunk every day. But the initial reaction from Britons who visited America 100 years ago and experienced tea bags for the first time was lukewarm.
They came about only after Mr Sullivan, in an attempt to cut costs, sent samples of tea leaves to potential customers in small silk pouch-like purses.
Unsure quite what to do with the strange little bag, the Americans dunked it into a cup of hot water. And so was born the tea bag.
After complaints that the mesh on the silk was too fine, Mr Sullivan developed sachets made of gauze - a method which was instrumental in today's tea bag design.
But it was not until 1953, when British tea producer Tetley spotted the commercial potential of the bag, that it began to take off here. The firm now sells 200million tea bags every week.
William Gorman, executive chairman of the UK Tea Council, said: 'Without a doubt the tea bag saved the tea industry.
'There is no way in our busy lifestyles today that we would have had the time or inclination to make tea the old way.'
Tea drinking is seen as a quintessential British tradition, with 130million cups drunk every day. But the initial reaction from Britons who visited America 100 years ago and experienced tea bags for the first time was lukewarm.
A major breakthrough came in 1930 when William Hermanson - one of the founders of the Bostonbased Technical Papers Corporation - patented the heat- sealed paper fibre tea bag.
Convinced the tea bag was the future because of the way it allowed the tea maximum exposure-to the water resulting in a good, strong brew, Tetley persevered with perfecting the bag.
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Posit
posit [pozz-it]
Verb
[-iting, -ited] to lay down as a basis for argument: the archetypes posited by modern psychology
Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006
Noun
1.
posit - (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
Verb
[-iting, -ited] to lay down as a basis for argument: the archetypes posited by modern psychology
Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006
Noun
1.
posit - (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
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