Word: breads
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This week 8,000,000 U. S. citizens dutifully visited their schools to reaffirm their faith in education as the bread and meat of U. S. democracy. It was American Education Week, and its slogan this year was "Education for the Common Defense." Visitors saw much flag-saluting, heard much anthem-singing. But beyond that, they found educators confused, uncertain what had to be done. Disquieting to progressives was a Spartan trend toward calisthenics instead of games, military drill for boys, more homework, less music...
...never smokes nor drinks, likes the same old-fashioned dances his boss likes, even likes to eat roasted soybeans, soybean bread, soybean soup. With a soul-deep belief in every Ford dream, Boyer last week was stunned with joy. His chief gave him authority to order a complete set of dies for the first road model of the plastic automobile...
BUDAPEST--Greek planes believed Brindisi, important Italian port and base on the Adriatic, today and damaged the railroad station and tracks, according to a Greek radio bread cast received here tonight...
...people had no money. All they owned was fishing equipment. All they ate was cod, bread, tea, wild berries. They were plagued with tuberculosis, scurvy, anemia, beriberi. They had never seen a doctor, and they treated their sick with charms: sugar blown into babies' eyes to cure them of ophthalmia, haddock fin bones to ward off rheumatism, burned nail parings to drive away sea boils. A scratch with a fish hook often meant infection and the loss of a limb...
Typical request is that of the 15 Germans in the Rhenish Mission (Reformed) near Canton: "We naturally only ask for our daily bread. So $20 would be enough for one person a month." Danish missionaries in Nigeria, where living is still cheaper, said they could keep going on $10 a month for married couples, $7.50 for single workers...