Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pont flies are fed milk and bread. Their eggs are hatched in a "synthetic manure" of wheat bran, alfalfa meal, yeast and malt. Codling moths, scourge of apple growers, have a room to themselves, with long rows of little green apples, each hanging from its own hook. These insects are caught by nailing corrugated paper board to apple trees. The moth larvae think this material is bark, dig in. Their cages are hung with purple cellophane to simulate twilight. In the greenhouse basement is the Japanese beetle division. This handsome insect, whose U. S. infestation is spreading from a focus...
...BREAD AND A SWORD-Evelyn Scott- Scribner...
...stone ovens continue to bake the sweetest bread, and after a meal in one of Amana's several large kitchens the guest is enthusiastic to meet the fine German-speaking Frauen and Fräulein who are responsible...
...from airplanes and shot over no-man's land in Leftist skyrockets read: "Brothers, among us everyone owns everything in Spain collectively! The proof is that every man behind our lines gets all the land he can till free. Is that true behind your lines? We promise 'Bread, Land and Liberty for All!' and we keep our promises...
...country it makes people who have tea and bread angry to find there is no sugar or even margarine to go round...