Word: batch
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...wheat and one of rye. It is cooked whole without grinding. The grain is just as it comes from the field and is put in a double boiler and cooked until the kernels of wheat burst open. This sometimes takes four or five hours. " 'We cook up a batch of it, put it in the ice chest and get some out and warm it up each morning. I suppose it will last for a week or ten days without getting sour.' " Interrogated as to whether they might add Coolidge Porridge to their line of cereals, expressed great amusement...
Included in the batch of letters are all the familiar specimens of newspaper correspondence; there are the Legion boys themselves who start off with the customary cracks at the "deah old Harvard Ladies," and then continue in an equally intelligent vein; and there are the humorless, but conscientious Harvard alumni who write in and deplore the Crimson's "hasty and unwise policy;" still others hold "older men," viz., the board of directors, responsible; and a few strike out boldly in their wholehearted approval...
...proof that Committee agents had a hand in these melodramatic antics. Chairman Nye, after questioning his agents privately and convincing himself of their probity, categorically denied Mrs. McCormick's "slanderous insinuations," refused to hear her evidence, adjourned the hearings. Mrs. McCormick rushed into print with a fresh batch of accusations to the effect that Chairman Nye had run out just when sensational evidence was about to be given against his own men. Chairman Nye explained he had adjourned the Chicago session because "we were driven to the conclusion that we were being framed* and . . . the Committee declined...
...disposition": Captain Frederick Hinsch of the German Secret Service who, while held in Baltimore on the interned steamship Neckar, manufactured tubes of anthrax cultures in his cabin, then sallied forth to hire Negroes who jabbed the germs into horses and mules bought by the Allies for War purposes. One batch of 4,500 beasts was jabbed so thoroughly that not one reached France alive...
There has been no "crisis," no ousting of the Prime Minister by hostile Turkish Parliamentary votes, for many a year; because there has been only one Parliamentary party - Kemal's. Leading citizens who might have opposed the Dictator were cleaned out in one big batch four years ago (TIME, Sept. 6, 1926). hung from peculiar Turkish tripod-gibbets by the neck until dead. This was done on the theory that the executed were "Enemies of the Revolution"- much as batches of counter-revolutionaries are being shot today in Russia (see p. 20). In Turkey as in Russia...