Word: breads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Western Outlet. In a sense, Robert was forged out of history. It was during the Crimean War that Yankee Missionary Cyrus Hamlin, then engaged in baking and ferrying bread across the Bosporus to the starving patients in the British hospital at Scutari, met a traveling Manhattan philanthropist named Christopher Rhinelander Robert. The two men decided that Western culture should have an outlet within the Ottoman Empire. They began planning a college course that was to be in English; it would be "prosecuted without regard to nationality," and would be taught by men "of firm and symmetrical piety." In 1863, Robert...
Working under the supervision of a dean of labor, they bake the community's bread, man the local tavern (still bone dry), learn to turn out such dishes as chicken flakes in bird's nest, eggnog pie, toasted Brazil-nut pie and ginger biscuits. They weave bedspreads, napkins and tablecloths, produce a vast assortment of wooden furniture. Though no student graduates without a thorough grounding in the liberal arts. Berea regards its work program as an essential part of its education. Whether black or white, foreign or native, every boy or girl must put in at least...
...says Sir Winston Churchill, is the expression of "the heart's desire . . . of the vast majority of all the peoples . . . to earn their daily bread in peace." The U.N.'s moral power derives from its ability to mobilize a great intangible: world public opinion. It was a sense of this moral power that led the Belgians to improve conditions in their trust territory of Ruanda Urundi-before the U.N. Trusteeship Council sent out an inspection team. The British and French pulled their troops out of Syria and Lebanon in 1946 because, as civilized nations, they were unwilling...
...ownership. He was one of those youngsters we used to call a 'Yipsol' [from Young People's Socialist League]. They could talk like hell, but they could not produce anything." But the same critical labor leader admits that Reuther is changing; he is becoming more a "bread-and-butter unionist" and less a social engineer out to "remake the world." Not that he has dropped his habit of making grandiose plans. He prepared a wartime plan to raise the sunken liner Normandie; later he blueprinted a "100-year plan" under which the U.S. would give the rest...
Citation: "Examining red bread mold, in collaboration with Dr. E. L. Tatum, he discovered that the genes control the synthesis of vitamins and amino acids in the living cell, and thus he made possible further discoveries not only of the nature of the genes but of principles in biochemistry and bacteriology...