Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anxious to hold out as long as possible, A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, Secretary of the Coal Miners' Federation, took it upon himself to accept 2,500,000 rubles ($1,250,000) which were cabled last week to the British miners' "strike fund" by Moscow labor groups. Britons tut-tutted at this, recalling how the Trada Union Council which directed the "general strike" had gained much approbation by refusing a similar Russian contribution (TIME, May 17). The Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, thereupon created a sensation by announcing that the Trade Union Council could not have accepted the Russian...
...minute headway. (This will be the greatest crowd ever handled by railroads in one day. In 1901 the Great Eastern Railway of England carried 200 -000 to King Edward VII's coronation, the previous record.) The railways will place 600 special guards at crossovers. Several hundred employes of the Cook County forest preserve will watch cross-roads and dispense bedding, fuel and cooking utensils at the many camp sites provided for the touring pilgrims. Auto-repair gangs will patrol the roads. First aid stations will minister to the stricken...
...everyone knows, the eagle is a bird more remarkable for vigor than sagacity. This was again proved when the little steamer Sulanierco recently sailed away from Porto Pico followed by a huge black and white eagle soaring high above her wake, disdaining to swoop for scraps thrown by the cook unless they consisted solely of meat...
...cook, intrigued, threw many a meat scrap. The eagle, unwary, flew farther and farther seaward?followed the Sulanierco 20 miles with ease, 10 more by settling down to earnest purposeful flapping, 10 more by resorting to tricks of volplaning and wind-catching, 10 more with every tendon of its great wings strained by the torturing, racking effort...
Gibson (Princeton), Harlow (Stanford), Davison (Yale), Cook (U. S. C.), Covert (D), Fitzgerald (Cornell...