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American history, as it was taught to us, began with Columbus' "discovery" of an apparently unnamed, unpeopled America, and moved on to the Pilgrims serving pumpkin pie to a handful of grateful red-skinned folks. College expanded our horizons with courses called Humanities or sometimes Civ, which introduced us to a line of thought that started with Homer, worked its way through Rabelais and reached a poignant climax in the pensees of Matthew Arnold. Graduate students wrote dissertations on what long-dead men had thought of Chaucer's verse or Shakespeare's dramas; foreign languages meant French or German...
PRINCETON, N.J.--Princeton's new orange and black DeNunzio Pool looks more suitable for holding the Great Pumpkin hunt than the showdown for the women's Ivy League swimming title. But Princeton, the defending Ivy champion, and Harvard had to make due this past Saturday, as both undefeated squads met for Ivy bragging rights...
...towns surrounding Plymouth, people will gorge themselves on turkey dinner and go to the high school football game, eat pumpkin pie and, perhaps, go to sleep. But what do prominent, even famous, people do during the November holiday...
What are round and orange, wear toothy grins and sit in the middle of front + lawns across the U.S.? No, not pumpkins. They're Stuff-A-Pumpkins, giant plastic leaf bags with a jack-o'-lantern design. When filled to the brim with lawn rakings, the 260-gal. monsters seem large enough to devour a small child. A creation of Connecticut-based Sun Hill Industries, the Stuff-A-Pumpkin (retail price: $3.98) is flying off the shelves of K mart, Wal-Mart and other bargain behemoths, suddenly making the childhood chore of leaf raking such a cool job that even...
...Stuff-A-Pumpkin's popularity has prompted an outbreak of plastic-bag thefts, leaves and all. A Houston family ended a string of such heists by coating the bags with grip-defying petroleum jelly. Benson Zinbarg, Sun Hill's president and founder, safeguards his own Stuff-A-Pumpkin by weighing it down with bricks...