Terror Dome; Dallas Morning News (1885-present?)

[Your Name]

Hey!

You shoulda hadda tried to use the old, original version of the search
engine that was Ancestry.com.

Sam Clements

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>
Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2005 4:57 pm
Subject: Re: Terror Dome; Dallas Morning News (1885-present?)

> Barry -- most of these are topics that would be interesting to poke
> around in.  And that's how I'd have to do it.  For example:  if I
> enter"German chocolate cake" without quotes, I get 200+ returns,
> starting in
> the 1800s. If I put it in quotes, I get one return in 1926 (in
> which the
> phrase does not appear . . ), and then one for June 3 1957 which is
> probably your apocryphal Dallas Morning News recipe (the dessert is
> called therein "German Sweet Chocolate Cake").
> I could use the ADJ operator, but since this is a three-word phrase,
> I've got to do it twice (in this case, I'd only do "german ADJ
> chocolate", since I suspect "chocolate ADJ cake " would max out at
> 200). To fully search this out, I have to go look it up in the ADS
> archives,find what you've already done, and limit my searches from
> that point
> backwards.  This takes a while, which is why I asked if you could put
> some limits on your queries (can you find xx before yy).
>
> Mostly this is due to the interface being so crappy.
>
> As it is, it'll take so long to figure out how to home in on
> productiveresults I doubt I'll work on many of them.  But I'll
> work on a couple
> that look easy/likely. (I'd like to antedate "Big Easy", for example,
> but every time I've tried I get frustrated by "big easy chairs",
> etc.).
> Regards, Bill
>
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> >
> > Excellent!
> > ...
> > How about:
> > ...
> > Corn dog (1942 Texas state fair?)
> > ...
> > German Chocolate Cake (supposedly directly from the Dallas
> > Morning News;  see
> > archives)
> > ...
> > Poor Boy or Po Boy
> > ...
> > Don't Mess With Texas
> > ...
> > Big D (Dallas)
> > ...
> > Big Easy
> > ...
> > City That Care Forgot
> > ...
> > Muffaletta
> > ...
> > Hot links (sausage)
> > ...
> > Shep Friedman obituary (he wrote for Texas Siftings and is
> > responsible for "the Great White Way--see archives; buried in
> > Fort Worth) ...
> > "Texas Saying"
> > ...
> > "Texas Proverb"
> > ...
> > "Texas Maxim"
> > ...
> > "Texas Slang"
> > ...
> > jalapeno (see archves)
> > ...
> > tres leches
> > ...
> > dulce de leche
> > ...
> > Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
> >
>