Word: godse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To use the word gingerbread" as a synonym for superfluity is a grievous error. . . . From antiquity, gingerbread was a ceremonial food and regarded as an appropriate sacrifice to the gods. ... As such it was ... often prepared in fanciful shapes and elaborately gilded. It was from this archaic custom that the...
Gingerbread very early ceased to be a monopoly of the nobles. Even the poorest citizen of ancient Rome somehow found it within his means to proffer a spicy gift to the gods. In ancient Greece, where bread-baking was a fine art, the city of Rhodes was as famous for...
India is nothing if not selfconscious: Indians derive both humor and a satisfying sense of tragedy from their hopelessly internecine differences. As Sadhu Singh Dhami, a distinguished Sikh scholar, said last week: "The cow is sacred to the Hindus and pork repulsive to Moslems. . . . The Hindus are rather noisy in...
But only the gods can say how long U.S. truck tires will last, or whether an early winter will close down on the Great Lakes and divert millions of tons of iron ore to the western railroads.
Though the gods drank nectar, pollen would have been far better for them: pollen (which is a male reproductive spore) is a startlingly rich source of proteins and fats, contains carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. This discovery was announced last week by James I. Hambleton, chief U.S. apiarist at Beltsville, Md...