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...been invented, so the people of Jarmo planted their crops with weighted digging sticks and reaped them with flint sickles. They grew barley, two kinds of wheat and some sort of legume, probably peas. At first they ground grain by rubbing it with a stone in a shallow stone dish. Later they developed effective mortars and pestles. They baked their bread in mud ovens stoked from the courtyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Earliest Farmers | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

Olney today has a shoe factory and six bars-which Mayor Emanuel G. Miller regulates by keeping a "shutoff list" of drunks who cannot be served liquor. The town is also squirrel conscious, not only because squirrel chowder is a favorite dish at church suppers but because hundreds of Olney's squirrel population are rare albinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On to Snider's Cornfield | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

College upperclassmen will begin doing some of the dirty work in the 11 University dining halls this year for the first time. Under a new experimental plan, much like the one for student porters, the Office of Student Employment is making available positions in the kitchen such as dish washers to students who are willing to do the work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Opens Jobs In 11 Dining Halls for Picked Upperclassmen | 9/27/1951 | See Source »

...ever the American public were given a heaping dish of nourishing food for thought, it was served up in your Aug. 27 reprint of Louis B. Seltzer's editorial in the Cleveland -Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

Gustaf VI of Sweden at their Sofiero summer palace. King Gustaf apologized for the main dish, explaining that even a royal fisherman must dine on what he catches. Said he: "It should have been tunny fish, which we were out to get this morning, but we caught 15 codfish instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Kith & Kin | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

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