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When the U. S. was very young,* wooden bowls were turned where "dish timber" grew and "minifers" (pins) came whence brass could be drawn into wire. New England resourcefulness produced "Yankee notions" which found a ready market with the agrarian Dutch, the simple Quakers, the luxury-loving Southerners. Bright young Yankees left home with a packful of Neighbor Brown's nutmegs, Neighbor Smith's pie tins and Uncle Timothy's rawhide "whangs" (shoe-laces). Bronson Alcott hit the road with tinware and almanacs instead of going to Yale. Worcester Polytechnic Institute was founded by John Boynton, onetime...
Over the radio the above given receipt was broadcast. Then came the question: "What dish is that, then? What is the name of the dish just described?" To make it easier, listeners-in were warned, a few minutes before the receipt was given, to despatch one of their number to the kitchen and fetch the cook. It was felt that an able cook could cry out: "Coffee souffle!" after hearing it described...
...Harvard telescope will be a reflector also, in which a concave mirror sixty inches in diameter replaces the convex lens of the more familiar, or refracting type. The mirror faces the star and, as it is concave, or dish-shaped, the light rays converge after being reflected from it. They are reflected to the side of the instrument by a second, flat mirror, in one type, and are brought to a focus on a photograph plate, or in an eyepiece, if the telescope is being used visually...
Marrow, Alfalfa. "One of the greatest services a man could render the world today would be the formulation of a recipe for an appetizing dish of bone marrow. Next would come an introduction of alfalfa as an item of our menus. Alfalfa is the richest of all foods in vitamin and iron."-Professor Louis S. Davis, Indiana University...
...dinner, a soup, a dish of salt meat, a dish of fresh meat, & as great a variety of vegetables well cooked as you please...