Word: biscuit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traditional obstacles, poor health and poverty. After the War, he was on the way to financial independence with a patent waterproof sock. Illness wrecked his plans. His television experiments, begun in 1912, were long pursued in garrets with the homeliest of apparatus?bicycle sprockets, bull's-eye lenses, biscuit tins, cardboard, string, sealing...
...John Daniel, "Biscuit king of Great Britain" and Cardiff shipbuilder, headed a delegation of Welsh Moose; handed Director General Davis a gavel made of wood from the house where Mr. Davis was born, in Tredegar, Wales...
...Chicago, biscuit and cracker men held a convention. "There's an appropriate cracker for every time of day," they said, ". . . for every type of person from the baby to the dyspeptic." They showed one another 157 varieties of crunchable goodies, including a specially designed, round creation of which the crumbs were guaranteed soft enough to make the cracker safe...
...stands on a bleak ridge where, after visits to the camps of treacherous Blackfeet Indians, Mr. Stevens learned that below the ridge was a secret pass which the Indians said was haunted. Mr. Stevens found the pass alone, but lost his homeward way when night fell. Munching a frozen biscuit, gnawing a strip of raw pork, Mr. Stevens paced all night, dreaming "exactly how the trains of the Great Northern would go sweeping through those mountain fastnesses in the months to come...
...will be found hard to enforce. Mince pie, in Kansas as elsewhere, is often so disguised as to make detection difficult. In Oregon, the law could be easily rendered impotent in its intended purpose by showing cigarette posters of attractive young girls in the act of smoking. But the biscuit squad of Oklahoma will have the hardest task. Armed with tape-lines, they must enter every kitchen in the state and make sure that no "society biscuits" are being made. It will be a job for heroes--or state legislators...