Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supposed corpse by detonation ; then, hiding on the island, Huck sees them throw loaves of bread into the current. As the loaves float down to him, Huck fishes them in, takes out the plugs, shakes dabs of quicksilver out of the insides and eats them. "It was 'baker's bread'-what the quality eat; none of your low-down corn-pone." Huck is joined by Tom and Joe and together they speculate on how Bill Turner, drowned the summer before, was found by loaded loaves. Tom says its not so much the bread that found the body...
Captain Matthew Webb in 1875 and William Burgess in 1911 had demonstrated that if you really felt like it you could swim across the English Channel. So that was that. But when various women from the U. S., and fat bakers from the continent began playing hob with the time-record, Lord George Riddell, owner of News of the World (London daily), saw that it would be suitable for a subject of King George's to swim along with them, faster, at least than the U. S. women. He posted ?1,000 ($4,870) to that end. Last week...
...creative writing cannot be taught, perhaps it may be inspired, and it is possible that such Harvard professors as Wendell himself, Briggs, Perry, Kittredge, Copeland, Neilson, now president of Smith College, and Baker have helped their students, helped richly to develop the seed which nature planted within some of them...
...names were, selected by Mr. George F. Baker, donor of the $5,000,000 group of buildings now nearing completion, which will house the Business School. Six student dormitories have been named for the following...