Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partitioned off a cheerless office. There were two iron safes, a high counting desk and swivel stool where his clerk sat, and Mr. Ridley's rolltop desk. Neither of the occupants ever took off his rubbers or overcoat. In their Dickensian foxhole they shared a lunch of bread and cheese...
...last fall's plantings had been abandoned, an all-time record. Kansas, which harvested 240,000,000 bu. in 1931, is expected to produce only 58,000,000 bu. this year. Whether or not the farmer profits much from dearer grain and smaller crops the consumer will pay: bread will cost 1?more a loaf...
...According to Mr. Wallace. It remains to be .seen whether the bakers will not add several cents (in some places they have already added 1c a loaf). Actually the cost of wheat has very little to do with the cost of making bread except as a pretext for raising prices. In France where wheat until recently was artificially maintained at a price of about $1.70 a bushel, a pound-loaf of bread sold...
...appears, has looked to the substance. If, for example, students continue to patronize the widow, it may become necessary to abolish the reading periods, "which would be a great loss to the college as a whole." There is, further, a subtle irony. Establishments which depend for their daily bread on the fact that the measure of a Harvard man's scholastic achievement is taken almost entirely from his ability to sling ink into blue books and which gravy that bread by clinging to the pragmatic belief that the stupidity of examination questions varies little from year to year and always...
...Hearst were patriotism, the sense of power and a desire to sell newspapers, with the last dominant. Hearst always loved to entertain, with his own stories, songs, guitar, clog-dancing as well as lavish parties. His newspaper formula added Money, Sex and Patriotism to the old imperial adage about Bread and Circuses. In 1896 he plumped for Bryan and free silver. After the Spanish war he discovered he had gone too far in his formulistic excoriation of President McKinley as a tool of the Plutocracy. McKinley's assassination was blamed on the Journal's incendiary editorials. Hearst changed...