Word: oven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liver into slices half an inch thick, and sprinkle each slice with the mixture of bread crumbs, mushrooms and seasonings; put in a casserole, pour over it one-half pint of cold water or good soup stock, and bake in a slow oven for three quarters of an hour...
...President Wilbur enjoyed many a tasty meal at the Justice's California home. Mrs. Wilbur cooked the meals herself then. She likes to cook; and although she has as yet made no recipe famed, like Mrs. Coolidge's coffee souffle, (TIME, Feb. 14), her coffee cake, whiffed from the oven, is tantalizing...
...years been in practice compulsory for all Freshmen because the anticipatory examinations, which come a week before college opens, have been attempted by very few and passed by an oven more negligible percentage. Consequently, about a third of each entering class have been forced to go over the ground thoroughly covered in school, and to reach the end of English A knowing no more about the mastery and use of words than at the beginning. Hours have been wasted which might properly have been spent in starting their collegiate education rather than in repeating school work...
...present death-struggle between Conservative North and Progressive South there is something of the religious fervor of Cromwell's Ironsides, traces of the Liberty, Equality, Fraternity of the Jacobins, oven a hint of the class war of Marx and Lenin. Among the ranks of the Chinest revolutionaries are also certain men suggesting the drill commanders employed by our own patriots of '76, only instead of French and German military experts, the Southern Chinese have chosen instructors and advisers from Soviet Russia...
...Class of 1673, coming by with a fowling piece in his hands, persuaded two boys to shoot a turkie sitting on Captain Cookin's fence." The remains were then wrapped in a coat and taken to Samuel Gibson's, where "it was dressed by his wife & baked in the oven, & in the night following it was eaten by Mr. Pelham, John Wise, and Jonathan Russell, studts." There are many other records, among them the tale of a student who was convicted of smuggling on the indisputable evidence of goose and turkey feathers in his room, to show the wicked practices...