Word: platter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rose a great barking & scratching. In the package was a luscious dog dinner - fresh beef of lamb, cleaned of fat & gristle, cubed for bolting, soaked in a broth of vegetable vitamin juices, garnished with shredded lettuce or cabbage wrapped in waxed paper and served up on a papier mache platter. Son of a socialite Washington insurance broker, Leroy Goff Jr. is 30, small, light-haired, blue-eyed, fresh-cheeked, amiable, handsome. At Princeton (Class of 1926) he had the peculiar distinction of being both a Triangle Club chorus girl and a varsity letterman in lacrosse. After college he went into...
...audience was as uncomfortable as she. But she got her reward. Into the cistern went the executioner. For a minute only the double-basses were heard, shuddering as if they could see the head fall, the blood gush. Then the executioner's black arm ap peared holding the platter and what seemed to be a wad of cheesecloth...
...Sept. 11). Let TIME'S sport reviewer note on his diary for September next year that the British International Trophy for Motorboats is commonly known as the Harmsworth Trophy, not Harmsworth Cup. The emblem of speed supremacy for motorboats is no more a cup than is a dinner platter. Taking its name from Sir Alfred Harmsworth, later Baron Northcliffe, who donated it as an international speedboat trophy early in the century, the Harmsworth is a cheap bronze plaque, perhaps 15 by 18 inches, and mounted on a bar wood base. It represents a bit of rough water...
When pedagogs from all over the land gathered last week at Columbia University for a conference such as Teachers College is forever holding, they were nearly unanimous about one thing. On the U. S. platter are three billions for public works. How about a slice for Education? Dean William Fletcher Russell asked for "a fair share," at once, in any form. Professor George Drayton Strayer asked for a billion. Six State Commissioners of Education gloomily chorused about retrenchments, pay cuts and shut-down schools in Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Washington, Massachusetts and Maine. Two of them pleaded piteously for Federal...
...Columbia conferees were gently discouraged by one man who could do so with authority. He was Dr. George Frederick Zook, the amiable, poker-faced new U. S. Commissioner of Education. There is, said he in effect, nothing on the platter for pedagogy. Perhaps some money for new school buildings. But nothing in the way of grants for what teachers need most: salaries. Dr. Zook went on to soothe the pedagogs, counsel them thus...