Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcing that it had "decisively overcome" Russia's shortage of consumer goods, abolished restriction cards (TIME, Oct. 7), threw open Moscow stores said to be bulging with more than the public could buy and dispatched throughout the world Soviet newsreels of beaming buyers rushing in to obtain meat, butter, caviar, cloth, quilts, rubbers, etc. One scoundrelly speculator was caught last week selling for 40 rubles a pair of gloves she had stood in line to buy from the State for 15 rubles, the purchaser preferring not to spend the day in a queue...
Breakfast: fruit, one egg, two strips of bacon, half a slice of bread, coffee with cream & sugar. Lunch: fruit, vegetable salad, one slice of bread with butter, cake or a half portion of pie, coffee with cream but no sugar. Dinner: meat, two vegetables, one quarter of a potato, coffee with cream & sugar, cake or fruit. Rose walked for an hour and a half every day and once a week Dr. Schuman massaged her in "places where she needed to lose." Warning that the diet varied from day to day and might be harmful to anyone else, Dr. Schuman emphasized...
...that to make apparatus able to stand such a stress is a delicate, costly and patience-taxing business. If the reinforcement is imperfect or if the materials are not the best in the tiny arena where the gigantic crush is finally focused, steel is likely to bulge like butter. Squeezed by 300 tons per sq. in., some of the contraction of a substance is due to a shrinkage of the atoms themselves. The complex atom of cesium shrinks most of all metals. Of 48 metals under high pressure, 39 become better conductors of electricity. Iron grows softer, glass harder. Squeezed...
...Nope, butter wait until Sunday...
...Roseau, Minn., Leon Plant, 65, indignantly refusing State and Federal relief, retired to keep house in a big, snug butter churn with a tight-fitting trap door (see cut), which he inherited four years ago from a former employer...