Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost everyone knows the early life of the man. How he went to Philadelphia to work as a printer. How he dropped into a bakery one night and bought great sticks of French bread. How his future wife laughed at him loafing up the street. This is all old stuff. His political and diplomatic career is also well enough known in the casual way. Everyone knows, that he foresaw the United States at Albany. There are countless stories of his graceful mots when he bowed low in the court of France. School boys are raised on the story...
...pericardiac inflammation, Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner of Cornell University pumps a little nitrogen-rich air between the two sacks. The gas holds the tissues apart until the inflammation goes away. Inflammation causes an exudation from the sacks. Doctors have merry names to describe the appearances of the exuding membranes-bread & butter pericardium, when the facing surfaces of the two sacks look like the slices of a bread & butter sandwich pulled apart; shaggy pericardium, when the surfaces are rougher than in the bread & butter state; icing, frosting, sugar-coated heart, when the sacks acquire a glassy surface. Dr. Claude Schaeffer Beck...
Supplying the seven houses and the Union, three large evens, each 16 feet long by eight feet wide, located in the new College Bakery in the basement of Eliot House, bake all the bread, pies, and pastry that the College dining halls use each day. Besides the evens, which are run by a battery of gas heaters to insure cleanliness and perfect regulation of heat, the most modern machinery has been installed, including a machine that thoroughly gifts the flour, weighs it, separates it into the correct portions, and mixes it with the regulated amount of water and yeast...
Each day the bakery turns out 125 dozen muffins, 200 dozen cookies, 200 pounds of cake, 40 to 50 large pans of pudding, 250 leaves of French bread, 175 dozen rolls, and when a popular dessert such as apple pie is to be baked, it takes 250 pies to feed the College. All fillings for pies, and sauces for puddings are made in the bakery, although in the case of sauces and whipped cream, the ingredients are sent along separately to the individual kitchens, where they are mixed...
...should not be such that anyone must starve. But it is pure mob panic to turn uncritically to the most immediate source of funds. By refusing to cooperate the authorities, of the College have done a great service, and if other colleges lend their support to the provision of bread and circuses, we may be prouder of the stand our own has taken. George S. Pellee...