Word: flavors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This brain trust met at a conference of the New Education Fellowship, 26-year-old international organization of Progressive Educators, convening for the first time in the Western Hemisphere. Ann Arbor, bright with intense sunshine and the chatter of 1,800 delegates from 22 nations, had a Geneva flavor. At the last moment the Fellowship learned that its president, Finland's Laurin Zilliacus, had been detained. He cabled enigmatically from Finland: LEAVING FOR THE FRONT. . . . STILL BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACY...
...will fly faster, higher and farther than anything anyone else can make. In the bomber field, the U.S. is already there. Among the fighters, its P47 may be there, or nearly. At the great horsepower training table, in short, U.S. plane designers are getting plenty of soup, whatever the flavor...
...spreading chestnut tree is just a gray tombstone along the walk but modern Brattle Street retains much of the antique flavor that delighted Longfellow almost a century ago. All you have to do is look for it. Up past the bustle of the Post Office and retail shops stands the remains of Tory Row, a group of old houses which haven't changed much since they were confiscated by patriot fathers in the days of the Revolution. Several ageless landmarks lie between Story and Hilliard Streets. just a block from Brattle Square; and of these, Perhaps the most interesting...
...important. >Thyme came from France. No U.S. horticulturist is yet growing it commercially. > Best paprika came from Hungary. A little still arrives from Portugal and Spain, but even that may be cut off before a 350-acre paprika experiment in Louisiana is successful. > Spanish saffron, used to color and flavor fancy rolls and buns, soared from $18 to $45 a pound, is still almost impossible to get. Because it takes 14,000 tiny flower stigmata to make an ounce, U.S. growers will not even try to produce...
...major players, an officer, was far more interested in the audience than in the play and turned constantly to face them. This kind of acting is typically high-schoolish. Bright spot in the evening was Aesop, of fable fame, who was played with some of the flavor of the great French comedian Raimu. Except for him the production was mediocre and seemed more a recitation that a serious attempt to capitalize on the analogies of the Cassandra story to the present day. Music for the performance was ably provided by a harpist but the meant-to-be-moving "Hymn...