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...Bean bag-meal pennant aboard ship...
...himself. Said he: "Since the 'victory arch' is now before us on this page, I am spared the anguish of having to describe it. . . . The locale selected is wrong for a victory arch . . . unless . . . we let the people who do the Macy Thanksgiving Parade, or the Soya Bean Association, or the Tight Rope Artists Union have a chance to compete. . . . In my opinion this design . . . is atrocious in every respect. It is flimsy, it is ugly, it is inept...
...silent veto. But after all the sky on this occasion was unquestionably blue, and a pale blue at that. It is a starting-point open to all. So very gingerly I mixed a little blue paint . . . and then with infinite precaution made a mark about as big as a bean upon the affronted snow-white shield. It was a challenge . . . but so subdued, so halting, indeed so cataleptic, that it deserved no response...
...housewives, short of meat and likely to remain so for the duration, were turning to an ancient makeshift-bean sprouts. Said Dr. C. M. McCay, of the school of nutrition at Cornell: Why not? Sprouted soybeans, in his opinion, are a good meat substitute. They are high in protein and fat, are not starchy, have higher vitamin C content than unsprouted beans. Biggest advantage: they grow quickly (some sprout in three days), can be raised right in the kitchen, in any container where they can be kept clean, dark, damp...
...calipers. Norman Fradd, the News Office, Professor Merk (History of the Westward Movement), Ada Comstock, Dean Sperry, the Master of Kirkland House, and Mike of Mike's Club (with portable dispensary) would be there for obvious reasons. You might even come across Claude Wickard, grubbing about in a bean patch...