Word: caked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college for men and women who expect to enter business when they graduate, the Antioch idea offers a valuable preparation. For six years the undergraduate takes alternate bites, first from the cake of cultural education, then from the crack of business, until his meal has made him, in Bacon's phrase, is a full man." Antioch thus combines scholasticism with worldly experience, and although, because of its dual system, it seldom produces specialists in either field, it does provide a much-needed kind of education. But the claim of Dr. Potter that Antioch furnishes", an education which is religion...
...perfect birthday party except that there was no cake with 2,678 candles...
...birthday without cake or candles...
...Leavitt's, midst the Famous Cake Box Mixture...
...very old man, President Emeritus of a Massachusetts University, celebrated a fortnight ago his 92nd birthday. No enormous cake glistening with petals of pink fondant marked the occasion; no 92 candles shone in the old man's eyes, no speeches were made, no toasts drunk. On the contrary, this aged onetime University President passed the day reading, studying, strolling in the morning sunshine, answering his correspondence. Once the intimate friend of Bryant, Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier, Aldrich, Longfellow, he can still read with ease and operate a typewriter. In 1874, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, then working to perfect...