Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will soon introduce a bill making it unlawful to sell flour in the United Kingdom which contains less than 15% of British wheat. So incensed was the French Government by this proposal that it "retaliated" last week by raising the compulsory proportion of French flour in French bakers' bread from...
After his long devotions Laborer Talbot would go about his long day's work. His free time he spent in further prayer; Sundays he knelt at all the morning masses, and returned for afternoon and evening devotions. Cocoa, tea, bread comprised his diet. If friends persuaded him to eat more he expiated by fasting. His charities were even more secret than his pious practices. He managed to subsist on six shillings ($1.50) a week before the War, ten shillings after. The rest of his small wages went to the poor, to a Chinese mission and to the training...
...population, rapidly increasing and becoming urbanized because of her Industrial Revolution, began to require more & more foreign food on which Britain's new proletariat preferred to pay no British tariffs. In 1815 this preference became so potent that riotous London workmen chalked the town with their slogan: "Bread or Blood!" Symbolic, a loaf of blood-soaked bread was pitched among Tory landlord M. P.s who upheld the British tariffs (chiefly agricultural) of the day, called the "Corn Laws...
...extract might be useful against cancer. Dr. Susman, pathologist, had noticed during the autopsies of some 200 cancer victims that their pituitaries and pancreases were generally and suspiciously abnormal. The ill-conditioned pancreases suggested that the patient had been eating a great amount of carbohydrates, like sugar and bread. Dr. Susman verified this suspicion by irritating the skin of mice until cancers developed. Bread-fed mice showed cancers much more frequently than oat-&-cheese fed mice...
Near Alpine, N. J., police removed one David Testori from a narrow ledge on the Palisades 300 ft. above the river. He had lived there two months, with a tarpaulin cover, a newspaper bed. some bread and potatoes, a razor, a fish hook, a bank book showing deposits of $719. He said he was afraid of people in New York...