Word: sugar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University was organized in 1718 in the town of Sessamee by an association of maple sugar merchants of the Vermont region who felt a need for an institution of learning which would crystallize amorphous theories of colonial America into a rational pattern of individual conduct. Chief among the early gifts was one of 654 pounds from Elihu Open, an affluent London merchant, who little realized that his modest gift would result in the naming of the infant school in his honor...
...Senator from Wisconsin, not even after McCarthy invited eight women reporters to dinner and cooked them fried chicken himself. Joe wanted to "do something." He had a horror of Senators who quietly tended their fences and got safely re-elected term after term. He took an interest in ending sugar rationing, in the five-percenters, got himself appointed vice chairman of a joint committee on housing, and became known as a friend of the real-estate lobby...
Something Soft in the Cellar. Novelist Bory, an inveterate courtroom spectator, discovered Sylvie soon after the war,when she was haled into court for stealing from her sister-in-law's Paris apartment seven dresses, six blouses, a kilo of sugar, a rabbit-fur vest, 10.000 francs and the stuffed head of a Pyrenean lizard. The judges sentenced her to three months in prison. Novelist Bory then & there determined to make Sylvie the heroine of his next book. The novel Fragile, or the Basket of Eggs* became a bestseller...
...rich and sparsely-settled Peace River district, wheat grows 73 bushels to an acre (1950 national average 17.1), and the region is fertile enough to support another million farmers, more than the province's present population. Canneries have moved to southern Alberta, where Canada's sugar-beet industry is centered and the country's tastiest melons and vegetables are grown on irrigated fields...
...When Sugar Ray Robinson lost his world middleweight crown in London two months ago to Britain's Randy Turpin, the question rose on both sides of the Atlantic: Was Robinson getting too old for the ring? (He is 31.) One evening last week 61,370 fight fans jammed into New York's Polo Grounds* to learn the answer. Though U.S. bettors had made ex-Champion Robinson a 2-to-1 favorite, there were plenty of skeptics and loyal Britons (including Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks, who wired his best wishes from Washington) who were sure that Randy would take...