Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this, there must be a recognition that prestige is the bread and butter of any unpaid services. Unless the prestige of the Committee is raised at both the University and at home, it will not attract the men best qualified for this important but delicate selling...
...besides Humperdinck's heavy-handed Hansel and Gretel, there are precious few operas acceptable to children; 2) Scherman's Little Orchestra Society is always ready & willing to tackle a new score; and 3) the adventures of a young and appealingly unsophisticated elephant named Babar* are bread & butter to large numbers of children and ex-children. With Mrs. Berezowsky they worked out sketches, got Dorothy (Porgy) Heyward to try her hand at a libretto. The result, after nearly two years: the premiere last week at Manhattan's Hunter College of a children's opera called Babar...
...Agriculture Committee last week that farmers can expect a further 5% drop in income in 1953. (Farm income last year was down 4% from 1951.) Wheat continued its recent slump last week. Corn is selling for 15% .less than a year ago. Cotton has fallen 30% since April 1951. Butter has fallen below support prices...
Women with babies in their arms peered anxiously over the pit edge as workmen shoveled. At last the burial chamber was opened, and Disciple Wamana entered alone with gifts of flowers, fruit, coins, and ghi (melted butter) with which to massage the yogi. The crowd waited tensely. Wamana emerged alone, his face the color of ashes. The pit, he said, was hot as a furnace; Narayan thought it better not to come out until the following day. The crowd roared with disapproval, and Wamana went back to the pit. Soon he emerged again, this time to confess the truth. Narayan...
...Bread & Butter. Designer Loewy was hired because, says Vance, "we felt that our own designers were paying too much attention to the production engineers, instead of letting themselves...