Word: breads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five days later (July1), Sallie rose early, "to get my baking done before any battle would begin"; but she had scarcely "put my bread in the pans when the cannons began to fire"-and the Battle of Gettysburg was under way. When Sallie Broadhead turned to her diary at nightfall, "the town was full of the filthy Rebels," cock-a-hoop with success: "all is quiet, but 0! how I dread tomorrow...
Life in Berlin is almost too dear to be worth living. Two pounds of bread are $15, a pound of coffee $100 (on the black market). How much is the city worth...
...cords for the home stove. Said she last week: "I make enough out of fishing and pulpwood to live on. There isn't much left over. I love the sea and I love the land. I think maybe I would like other things better but this is my bread & butter." Then she added with pride: "The men down here who go fishing all think I'm wonderful...
...early records of history to the present day. Professor Giedion holds that "the sun is mirrored even in a coffee spoon," looks for the truth about man in "humble things," and finds Hitler and Napoleon no more instructive than Linus Yale (locks), Clarence Birdseye (frozen food) and Sylvester Graham (bread...
...uniform" a product is, the more comfortable he finds it. The 19th Century gardener grew 30 kinds of apples in his orchard, ranging in taste from bitter to sweet. Today, "the large red apple" caters to the public love of all that is "sweet, smooth, and outwardly appealing." Bread, which was once the crusty staff of life, is now "half-masticated . . . before reaching the mouth," and caters to the taste which prefers fruit juice to fruit, chopped meat to a cut off the joint, mashed potato, ice cream, and a host of packaged powders which water turns into infinite varieties...