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...Council's efforts may have local effects and jar awake many of the right people. Regional and national institutes will be on the upswing this summer and many colleges are voluntarily raising undergraduate requirements in English. However, this publication is the Council's best attempt to date, to get English teachers their share of large-scale assistance...

Author: By Robert C. Dinerstein, | Title: English As She Is Taught | 3/2/1961 | See Source »

...take in farthings at four to the penny, only some 500,000 of the 750 million issued since 1860 crossed their counters. Where were all the others? Many are lost or lying forgotten in toy cupboards. Some are on kitchen shelves, since British housewives believe nothing makes a jar of preserved fruit so airtight as jamming a farthing under the spring clip on each top. Others are holding up girls' stockings, a farthing being just the right size to substitute for a missing thingumbob on a garter belt. Millions of others have been laid by as souvenirs. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Fading Farthing | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

...first tried to cut into the lucrative moonshine market by selling Georgia Moon in the usual narrow-necked bottles (Brown-Forman also puts out a narrow-necked corn). But it had little success in bucking the ingrained habits of shine drinkers, who like to drink out of Mason jars, the South's traditional moonshine container. After dickering with the Treasury, Viking got permission last month to put its corn likker into Mason-jar fifths (retail price: $3.50 to $4.50, depending on the state, v. about $4 for a quart jar of moonshine), has watched its sales suddenly jump. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beverages: Shine On, Georgia Moon | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

...rapidly making tycoons out of two ex-schoolmarms who run Manhattan's Park & Hagna Inc.. the bean's maker. People also serve Dilly Beans in martinis, salads, sandwiches, cream cheese and beef Stroganoff-and have discovered that poodles love them. Eaten right from the jar, the spicy, nonfattening (1.5 calories each) green beans have inspired a new party sport: watching the expression of a novice trying his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Jumping Bean | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...last month. She didn't gain an ounce. (Is she tired of Dilly Beans!)" Radio listeners were subjected to a barrage of zany plugs interspersed with 20 seconds of weird "music to eat Dilly Beans by." One ad advised: "If your neighborhood grocer doesn't have a jar, knock something off the shelf on the way out." So many customers took it seriously that some grocers complained, and Dilly Bean changed its advice, now lightly urges frustrated customers: "Move to another neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Jumping Bean | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

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