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Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer had twirled like a weathercock in a whirlwind over the problem of jug-eared Michael Lee, controversial chief of Commerce's Far Eastern Branch. Last spring, when a Senate subcommittee began gesturing at Lee's loyalty, Sawyer said: "He's one of our best men . . . We're ready to fight...
...Minneapolis, Michigan in a 7-7 tie with Minnesota, to retain its grip on the venerable Little Brown Jug...
...year-old manuscript in Oxford's Bodleian Library. He began translating the quatrains of the forgotten Persian astronomer-poet, Omar Khayyám. In a short time, FitzGerald's translations swept into vogue, and the Rubáiyát's call to "A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou" became a literary contagion...
...familiar "Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread . . ." Arberry writes...
What the annual Boston-Syracuse football game needed for greater class, a special B.U. committee had decided, was a nice trophy-something like the Michigan-Minnesota little brown jug or the Indiana-Purdue old oaken bucket. The committee considered and discarded the notion of a totem pole or a big bass drum. Finally someone suggested an oldtime Boston bean pot. Bright B.U. Publicity-man George Wood took over from there...