Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scout leader (which he is). He adheres to the old-fashioned philosophy that God helps those who help themselves. Benson quotes the Bible to show how he applies this dictum to farming. Not through Government handouts, says he, but "in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." Benson believes that "no real American wants to be subsidized." For holding to these beliefs Benson has been caught in a whirling political storm. His principles have not been twisted by the blow, but the force of the gale is mounting...
...times a year he drew a black cross in his journal to mark his incontinencies. When Maugham got to know him, Augustus Hare's days were already numbered, and swaddled in ritual. They began at 8 a.m. with a cup of tea and two slices of thin buttered bread. This was followed by morning prayers, Augustus reading, guests kneeling. Maugham found that Augustus had inked out many lines in the Book of Common Prayer, and asked why. "I've crossed out all the passages in glorification of God," said Hare. "God is certainly a gentleman, and no gentleman...
...UNism). Even our educators are beginning to admit our educational system is goalless, its fruits: nationalism and relativism, and this dream belief in "the perfectibility of man," quickly shattered by the evidence of our senses. The principles of Dostoevski's Grand Inquisitor are gratefully accepted-just give us bread, and never mind freedom and responsibility...
From its beginning in 1932, Polaroid's bread & butter was photographic equipment and sunglasses. Soon he was making other glare-free devices-binoculars, desk lamps and railroad-car windows. Later, he brought out the phenomenally successful Polaroid Land Camera (TIME, May 30, 1949), which prints pictures within a minute after they are snapped. Last year, on sales of $13,400,000, up 45% in a year, Polaroid netted...
...began with a simple bread & butter note that Harold J. Laski, 23, sent to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 75, one day in 1916. Laski, then an instructor in government at Harvard, assured the Great Dissenter that "you teach our generation how we may hope to live," pressed a couple of books on him, and begged permission to "write sometimes and ask you questions." In the next two decades, Briton Laski asked precious few questions of Yankee Holmes, and frequently he wrote three or four letters to Holmes's one, but the sparks flying between two well-charged minds produced...