Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accompanying a recipe for Rhode Island Johnny Cake was the notation that "it was once called journey cake, I am told, because travelers mixed the corn meal with water or snow (we prefer the local white corn meal). But let me warn you that the shade of my Great Aunt Adeline, from whom I originally got the recipe, will surely haunt you if you put anything but butter on this mouth-watering concoction. Syrup and such will overcome the delicate flavor...
...Shambles. At 5 a.m., Dewey let it be known that he was "still confident." His mother gave up and went to bed. In San Francisco, Earl Warren told reporters wanly: "Even if the 81st Congress is called on to decide the election, the Republicans still...
...comfort to one type of state planner. Instead of encouraging initiative toward more production, he says there is only so much-we must strictly control what there is. Any group ruled by this static idea will turn its back on progress and become socially reactionary. The Germans have twice let it lead them into aggressive war, although they, of all people, should have known better. One of their great historic achievements was to "stretch" the sandy acres of the Prussian plain, by good farming. As a result of good farming practices and highly skilled industry, Germany had the highest living...
...trying to progress as fast as we did last year," Barclay reports. "Since there's no Jayvee team, we let everybody who wanted to play basketball come out for the team. We're trying a new combination each...
...five minutes of eight. I do not object so much to the fact that I could not get in, but rather to the way the milling crowd outside was treated. The yard cop at the door simply said that no more people would be admitted, locked the door and let it go at that. The door was, however, opened two or three times in the next twenty minutes. The first time someone suggested that the concert be relayed by amplifier to the large hall on the opposite side of the building. No attention was paid him. The second time...