Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny bottle of combustible red fluid exploded last week into a labor ruckus that left thousands of Londoners without cheese, butter, bacon...
...Basic Arts won't be confronted with masses of fact. Instead students, if they are successful, will learn "how knowledge is acquired and how works of art are created." In the science seminar, for instance, they will study what great philosophers have written about scientific methods (Bacon's aphorisms, Descartes' Discourse on Method, etc.), repeat some of the great laboratory experiments...
...less hostile Gentiles, religion was a far more vital force than it is today in Israel. The Jew is supposed to wear a hat; in Tel Aviv, young men risk sunstroke to go hatless. Waiters at the Armon Hotel in Tel Aviv have no qualms about offering guests bacon. Throughout the country dietary laws are widely breached...
Soon the house was swarming with celebrators. Jangling telephones brought in better & better news. Hero-worshiping neighbors crowded around as Duplessis sat in a corner chain-smoking and reading telegrams of congratulations. "We goes up!" bellowed a little butcher by the name of Dollar Bacon, "Maurice is the best we ever had. For French, English, Polish and every kind of peoples, he is the best. Gosh, that Maurice...
Under regulations drawn up in 1570 by the school's patron, Sir Nicholas Bacon, enrollment was limited to 12 underprivileged boys who had "learned their accidence without books and can wright indifferently." The rule excluded Sir Nicholas' famous son, young Francis Bacon. Parents were required to furnish their boys with a bow and three arrows and if their "child shall prove unapt for learning . . . ye shall take him away; and again, if he prove apt, then that ye shall suffer him to remain till he be completely learned...