Word: oven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Postum Company, biggest trademarked food company, began at Battle Creek, Mich., 33 years ago when the late Charles W. Post pottered around an oven with wheat bran and molasses. By roasting them he sought a coffee substitute. He found the substitute and called it Postum Cereal...
People liked Postum cereal's morning brew, and their purchases gave Post enough money to continue pottering around the oven. Whole wheat and barley came out of the oven Grape Nuts. Later came thin, crisp Post Toasties, then Instant Postum powder. These four products were the foundation blocks of the great Postum business...
...crime which belong essentially to the field of Anthropology. "Our, hope is that we may identify the criminal before, as well as after the act," he said, "so that we may recognize the presence of dementia praicox before and not after little Willie has put the baby in the oven." He mentioned the possibilities of the relation between race and crime citing statistics of the negro, and foreign races in the United States. Racial psychology, according to Professor Hooton, is not yet definite, but with delicacy of technique increasing, it may be possible to determine exact relations between race, physical...
...Abbot & wife also snared sunbeams from the top of Mount Wilson in California in 1925. They devised a trap (a two-compartment oven) to find that the hottest sunbeams registered 175° Centigrade;? the average ones, 150° Centigrade...
...stiff as taffy sticks. Editha Fleisher was Hansel, just ragged and happy. There was a real witch with matted gray hair and a nose like a spigot who rode on her broomstick way into the sky and ate little children. There was a gingerbread house and a red-hot oven where plop ended the witch pushed by wee Gretel just too stupid to get in herself. "Hocus pocus. . . ." Children loved it. So did grown-ups who quite forgot the tawdry Violanta of early afternoon...