Word: bacons
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Trap for Whom? Today there seems to be a rise in the number of such claims, but in fact the concept has never enjoyed much judicial support. In 1864 a Judge Bacon of New York remembered that the plea was "first interposed in Paradise: 'The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.' That defense was overruled by the great Lawgiver, and [it] has never since availed." Well, hardly ever. The defense was recognized for the first time in a federal court in 1915. In two later cases-involving a police agent in 1932 who begged an acquaintance...
...joys are unalloyed any more in an increasingly self-critical age. The cigarette, the fried egg and the bacon, the automobile, the toy with lead-based paint - all have been judged to be as pernicious as they are pleasurable. Now the boom has fallen on the economic boom. Time was when the word connoted something unqualifiedly positive, as in "booming industry" and "boom times." But because a boom all too often leads to inflation and then to bust, Data Resources Inc., an economic consulting firm in Massachusetts, has set up a "DRI Boom Monitor" to alert subscribers when a healthy...
...Pelican edition of Shakespeare's works and author of such studies as Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions and As They Liked It: An Essay on Shakespeare and Morality, Harbage was scornful of all theorists who argued that Hamlet and Macbeth might actually have been written by Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe or any other pseudonymous poet...
...Bacon and eggs, toast, waffles, pancakes have their devotees, but the most popular American breakfast is cold cereal with milk. So, at least, say cereal makers, and they have some figures to back up their claim. From 1967 through 1972, cereal sales hardly grew at all, but since then they have been rising rapidly-by 13% in 1973, 8% in 1974 and nearly 6% last year, to 1.8 billion lbs. In those three years, dollar sales have risen from $1.1 billion to $1.7 billion, and per capita consumption of cereal has expanded almost a third, from about...
...fact, the best Crimson performances were turned in by individuals who two weeks ago weren't even planning on spending their weekend in Williams. But then Peter Havens, Cass Sunstein, and Ned Bacon all came down with one thing or another, so Scott Mead and Ken Ehrlich, numbers nine and ten against Princeton a month ago, were called upon to place five and six and represent Harvard in the "C" division this weekend...