Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naval terms. Would it be possible for the painter to explain the reason for the honor so nobly bestowed upon the Coast Guard? Or does she try to convey to the looking public that members of the Coast Guard all look as if they have been stuffed with "brown bread, baked beans, coffee...
...limousine every prefect took home mimeographed copies of the 40 or more new decrees. These, in addition to launching the public works program, set up Government agencies for combatting unemployment (chiefly by limiting workers of alien nationality) and to enforce reduction of meat prices, lower bread prices already having been decreed. Fiscal measures, newly decreed, reduce the inheritance tax on farms, stiffen bankruptcy laws to protect creditors, reduce the profit permitted on contracts with the State, increase the profit tax paid by directors of large concerns, reduce the interest rates on commercial loans and generally contribute in involved fashion...
...Government circles Germany was said to face no shortage of "necessities," such as coarse rye bread, sausages, potatoes and cabbage, but officials shrugged at the prospect for "luxuries" like those about which Berlin housewives were last week shouting...
...Stefan, impressionable baker who could not endure the sight of hungry people looking through his window at freshly baked bread, escapes to the country where the "soft and quiet undulation of the wheat fields" gives him a momentary vision of unmeasured miles of wheat, of stores of food so enormous that no one need go hungry...
...Last Supper's scene is a New England Wednesday night church supper of brown bread, baked beans, coffee. At the long tables all plates are turned down, while Christ at a little centre table asks a blessing. To Christ's right (facing the picture) sits Mrs. Sidney Atwood, president of Chatham's Church Association, with Mr. & Mrs. Nathan Buck (oysters). To the left beams Mrs. George Eldredge, association vice president. Just beneath Christ are Chatham's oldest inhabitant, 94-year-old Captain Sam Harding, and Dr. Northing, with arms folded. Behind the doctor are three Coast...