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...chief interest to each convention were the problems facing that particular industry and tactics to be employed in the future. Thus while the American Bankers' Association mulled over the credit situation, members of American Bakers' Association in Chicago discussed the advisability of having a national doughnut week soon and announced crackers in the shape of states to tempt, to educate unruly infants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Second Hundred Billion | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Sorger of Longview, equipped with spikes and a circling rope, squirreled up a 120-ft. fir tree, cut out the top, descended, all in 4 min. 5 sec. Among his prizes was a Paul Bunyan doughnut, one foot in diameter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rolleo | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...optimist a doughnut sees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Optimists | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...still possible to go into one of the early-evening-coffeehouses, sip one's coffee and witness as much of the performance as one has time for, at an outlay roughly equivalent to the cost of a doughnut and coffee at Childs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Moore's Impressions | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...college for hoboes" opened last fall by a Chicago woman one of the regular students announced that he was a "milleniumite", that his philosophy was the philosophy of the doughnut; "the bigger the doughnut, the bigger the hole." He entered vigorously into the activities of the college, helped equip a stage; and directed the production of the plays got up by the pupils until the pangs of hunger forced him to leave the institution and go to work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE DOUGHNUT | 2/8/1923 | See Source »

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