Word: oven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who are interested only in the grand problems of the universe and this, its man infested planet, a tiny riot in a university is no more than froth on a minute wave of trouble. But to the legions who mass themselves within the halls of learning oven such a petty turmoil has its interest. Even an occasional son of Harvard, fresh returned from divisional examinations, may question the judgments of the lesser gods. But whatever powers exist in what some more caustic critics have termed Caves, need not be too alarmed by the rude murmurs heard about the streets...
...make a few comparisons. No attempt is so beset with inveiglements to flat failure. The way is full of pitfalls, and flanked with ambushes--of ill temper, overstatement, and undue ambition to substitute mere "smartness" for humor. It is like baking a custard: too much heat in the oven fillips it to whey in a twinkling, and untutored carelessness withers all its delicious possibilities to stringy, unpalatable ruin. But blessed are they among a generation anhungered who know the true recipe and have acquired the knack of handling the heat...
...designed to serve 1,000 to 3,000. Despite a fine "esprit de corps" the Hall has failed. The reasons are under Memorial Hall in the form of a power plant, ice plant, electric laundry, a large bakery, a butcher-shop, numerous refrigerating rooms, an oversize range and roasting oven, numerous old-fash-loned steam jacketed ketties, sundry machines such as electric ice cream freezer and an automatic potato peeler...
...watchmen, and the life of the great country houses. . . .? We used to play Flapdragon, I remember, as it drew to midnight, while we waited for the bells of the New Year. On the polished table in the dining-room was placed the biggest dish in the house, a crackled, oven-browned, blue-and-white Victorian with a channel and a gravy puddle at one end. On it were laid three pennies and six pennies and bright, new shillings, and upon them were piled up the fat Christmas raisins, prunes and French plums. Over all was poured a bottle...
Little Sewanee, which had appeared to Vanderbilt to be all picked, stuffed and ready for the oven, sprang from the platter and carved up the conquerors of Minnesota...