Word: corn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liquor distilled from ground corn...
...American Gas Association, whose meeting at Atlantic City last week was in accidental coincidence with that of the dieticians, is interested in cooking. Delegates heard that pie and angel cake are the two most popular U. S. dishes. Boston baked beans and corn pone have yielded to delicacies. Missourians like Spanish dishes. In New York pie and cake are most popular, in New Jersey nothing in particular...
...smooth efficiency of their play suffered a let-down against Bates last week, while Yale as topping Dartmouth from her three-year throne, and was not conceded a chance against the Blue. But with an irresistible rush the Bears swept the astonished Blue team off its feet, and sent Corn-sweet over with the winning touchdown four minutes after the opening whistle. Not content with the one score, the Providence eleven continued its aggressive tactics, and while unable to tally again, kept the Elis so much on the run as to render them unable to launch a decisive counter attack...
...Stevens Point, into army camps, schools, hospitals, East, North, South, West. No entourage traveling with her, no maid even, no road manager. Just Schumann Heink, taking an upper when she could not get a lower, hater of temperament, lover of her children, lover of soldiers the world over, of corn' beef and cabbage . . . shrewd . . . generous...
...even though they be by modern commerce, memorialize it for seven days, wherever possible, by living in thatched huts, as did their ancestors on pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Deprived of an outdoor areaway, ghetto-crowded Jews have been known to rip holes in their roofs, holes which they covered with corn stalks or twists of grass. On the last day of the feast, Simkhat Torah, the yearly reading of the" Law is completed. Then there is a riot of rejoicing which the Mishnah, Talmudic commentary on Mosaic Laws, reflects in the phrase: "He who has not seen...