Word: ates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minnesota alumni and alumnae he sent a 52-page, illustrated questionnaire entitled "Building the University of Tomorrow." It asked them what kind of jobs they had, how much they made, what they thought of their bosses, whether they were happily married, whether they spanked their children, what they ate, where they bought their clothes, what they read, what movies they liked, what they thought of President Roosevelt, whether they wrote letters to their Congressmen, hundreds of other questions...
...some a pillowcase had to do) containing a change of underwear, spare stockings, pajamas, toothbrush, towel, soap, comb, 48-hours rations, milk, canned beef, biscuits, chocolate bars. Excused from lessons, pupils played all day in their schoolyards. When they tired of play, they broke into their knapsacks and ate their rations. The next three days were duller. London's school children just waited...
...lusty on all occasions. For the camera he let his mother pin a flower in his buttonhole; he vigorously strode up & down Owosso's Main Street; he posed chummily with Farmer Earl Putnam, who once paid him $30 a month to run a cultivator, do chores; he ate Mrs. Putnam's noonday "dinner" of home-cured ham, eggs, new potatoes, corn from the patch, fresh cherry pie. He played golf, suppressing his scores. Less pleasurably, he heard that FBI's John Edgar Hoover had jailed Lepke Buchalter...
...mountains of central Pennsylvania that hem in the fertile and tranquil Kishacoquillas Valley their ancestors settled before the Revolution, they felt perfectly at home. The 7,000 delegates came from Argentina, Tanganyika, India and all North America by a variety of conveyance from trailer to airplane, at meal times ate their fill for 20? of tasty Pennsylvania Dutch cooking...
...where they wander about all day and sleep about all the evening; no meal is at a given hour, but drops upon them as an unexpected pleasure." In that matriarchy, the strikingly handsome, tall, dark-eyed, sensual, clever, positive, realistic Lambs horse-played and horselaughed at delicacy and romance, ate prodigiously, fell asleep and snored, shouted their arrogant opinions, cursed loud and long. Yet they had immense love of life, good humor, adroitly managed people and situations. Melbourne House was a social centre of London. It was also animal, hard, rapacious and plainspoken...