Word: nut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the shortcomings of Roslyn's three elementary schools. One by one they denounced Superintendent Wegner's highfalutin' notions, complained that their children could not read. Up jumped one taxpayer to snort that a class of boys had spent an entire day learning how to make nut bread...
Instead of a formal curriculum, Roslyn's schools have an activities program. Thus its schoolchildren build boats or Indian tepees, and in so doing learn incidentally to read & write, learn something about history, science, art. When Roslyn's boys make nut bread, Superintendent Wegner explained, they not only enjoy a creative activity but learn to add, subtract & multiply...
Providence Boys' Club splashers will have a tough nut to crack tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building pool when Coach Hal Ulen's Varsity swimmers meet them for the fifth Crimson meet of the current season...
...last week's price setup. The rest of the U. S. will be put under a similar price code in a few weeks. In each of the 23 producing areas each quality and size of coal is classified according to production costs. Sizes include lump, egg, pea, nut, run-of-mine, industrial slack and stoker. Qualities range from "A" through "G" or further, depending on sulfur and ash content, b.t.u. rating, etc. Result of such complications is that the B. C. C. has had to work out 30,000 different minimum coal prices...
...Beech-Nut Packing ("Everything Beech-Nut but the Eggs") showed $1,44°r ooo for the first half compared to $1,203,-ooo in the same six months of 1936 (both figures before Federal taxes). C, "Sales have continuously risen ^each twelve-month period for four years," de- clared General Foods Corp.'s Colby Chester in announcing half-year profits of 18,000, a slight gain over the same period of last year...