Word: manna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mine-have in common: freedom is the air we breathe, freedom is in our blood and bones: the independence of the human spirit. But we are so used to it that if we ever think of it at all, we think it has dropped into our laps like manna from the skies, and unless we go a little beneath the surface in our questioning, we may feel that we enjoy this freedom because we are better than other people and therefore more worthy of it. Indeed we may give an impression to the world of that complacent self-righteousness which...
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...Robert Ley, leader of the German Labor Front, bubbled with enthusiasm, even foresaw the use of People's Cars as Nazi baby buggies: "Within ten years every German who works will or can be the owner of a KdF car. No manna falls from heaven! If you want socialistic advantages you must work for them. National Socialism is not weakly but manly Socialism! We hope the KdF car will even raise the German birth rate by encouraging German families to have four or five children to fill it. ... This very year the first section of the KdF factory, which...
Steve Donoghue won the Derby once more after that-in 1925 with H. E. Morris' Manna-to set a record of six Derby victories. His total of 1,840 winners does not approach the all-time record of 2,775, established by England's 19th Century Fred Archer. He has won for his employers considerably less money than Jockey Sande's record of $3,034,858. And by retiring this year he will cut himself off from another record: 46 years of jockeying, set by Great Britain's John Osborne. As a public figure, however, Steve...
Blakeslee, director of the Carnegie Institution's station for experimental evolution on Long Island, produced 45 tablets of mannose, a sugar which is extracted from manna, a mildly cathartic gum secreted by certain Oriental trees. Mannose is notable for the wide variety of taste reactions which it causes. Dr. Blakeslee gave one tablet to each of the 45 members of the American Philosophical Society assembled before him. At a signal, all the savants raised their hands in unison, put the tablets in their mouths. Eighteen reported a sweet taste. Others said it was bitter, some said it was both...