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Midwestern natives will note with annoyance that those 16-cent and 31-cent B-R cones are 25 and 45 in Cambridge. Bailey's probably has the highest quality ice cream, but a one-scoop cone costs 35 cents. If you're willing to pay, try mocha almond or the chocolate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Glutton's Guide to Harvard Square | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...kerosene b'long Jesus Christ by'm-by all done, b-r up, finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Writing about Writing | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...almost as hard as he worked himself. To the daily questions: what time would the staff move and what was there to be for dinner?-his answer was invariable: "At daylight; cold meat." His men trusted him, admired him at a distance; called him "that long-nosed b-r that beats the French." The admiration was not mutual. Wellington's frequently-expressed opinion of Tommy Atkins: "The scum of the earth, the mere scum of the earth. . . . The English soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. . . . The man who enlists into the British army is, in general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Iron Duke | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...types of gas-mask were always being issued. One kind was known in Graves' battalion as "the goggle-eyed b-r with the tit." Graves' nose had been broken boxing, so he had to have an operation while on leave in order to breathe through the mask. In July, 1916, he was so severely wounded in the lung by a shell that he was reported dead, and the colonel wrote a letter of condolence to his mother. Later, in England, he had difficulty cashing cheques because of his illegal vitality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...B-R 4. P-Q R...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Chess Match. | 2/19/1894 | See Source »

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