Word: oven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorite indoor sport known as Plan the Ideal College--usually played over cups of coffee in the Faculty Club. In most cases, however, the game is just for fun, and the brave visions never get beyond the lunch table. It is rare that a systematic study is made and oven rarer when the academic community perks up and shows interest. But the unusual happened last December when four well-known colleges in western Massachusetts--Amherst, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, and the University of Massachusetts--issued The New college Plan. Written by C. L. Barber, Stuart M. Stoke, Donald Sheehan, and Shannon...
...bottom, they say. lies the village of Villa-verde de Lucerna. It was drowned a long time ago. when Jesus, dressed as a pauper, came begging alms and the villagers turned him away. Only a few women who gave him bread were saved, as well as the oven in which the bread was baked -and the oven survived as a small hermitage on the western shore of the lake near the village of Ribadelago...
This time the legendary oven hermitage of Villaverde de Lucerna was not spared; it too was swept away...
...drainpipes and iron railings, and handed them over to the authorities as scrap iron." In Honan, it added, peasants complain bitterly about the common messhalls, which prevent them from having friends at home for dinner. In Hopei they worry about having no kitchens of their own or a brick oven to sleep on during the winter...
...packs up to 25,000 sheets of paper an hour (price: $9,000); Perk-ette's coffee machine, which spurts a fresh brew at pre-set intervals, thus always has coffee fresh at coffee-break time (installed free on $5-a-day guarantee); Coffee Vending Service's Oven-Hot Foods and Cold Buffet machines, which heat frozen dishes, provide either hot plates or cold for less than $1 (installed free for offices with a staff of 300 or more...