Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cook books. Collecting them became a hobby. Now she has 4,000, largest collection of its kind, which she is giving to the New York Academy of Medicine. Oldest specimen is a manuscript, written about 870 A.D., of Apicius De re Coquinaria (On Cookery), which collates some of the ancient recipes the Romans considered choice. Ancient cookery differed little from modern. Roast pork and apples was a Roman, dish, also duck and turnip. The Romans had no sugar, used honey. Honey and cheese made a delicate dish. Pepper was new to them. They used it profusely. Cinnamon they knew...
...True, by cutting down on courses you can still more buildings add, But will ancient English bedrooms make Joe Yale a brighter...
...account for this rapid expansion, Eatonists give credit to neither stock manipulations nor managerial ability. His special genius is in organization. Speaking in exact, ministerial tones, casting penetrating looks from his blue eyes, he wields great power when it comes to exhorting ancient industrial rivals to quell their jealousies and lock their arms in Christian fashion before fighting the fight for bigger profits...
Delhi, India, was the ancient capital of the Mogul Empire. Once the glittering bazaars along its Chandni Chauk (silver street) made it the richest thoroughfare in the world. Nearby still loom the three domes of the Jamma Musjid or Great Mosque, a fabulous and mighty shrine...
Cleopatra's Needle, famed Egyptian obelisk in Manhattan's Central Park, suffers considerably from the frost. The late Art Dealer George Jean Demotte, who presented many ancient sculptures to U. S. museums, always advised that they be kept indoors although in their original state they may have adorned European exteriors...