Word: beef
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...possible courses which otherwise would have required a new force of instructors. They have spent many hours and no little effort, and imposed upon themselves tiresome and unpleasant tasks. They have devoted evenings to the drudgery of correcting section papers. In everything, from acting as majors to preparing roast-beef and jelly sandwiches, they have been unsparing of their labors...
...that he uttered these words, representatives of Western livestock and packing interests told the Food Administration that, as there is no shortage of food except in pork and its products, abstinence from wheat and beef involves an unnecessary sacrifice. If this be true, and if, as they say, stocks of beef and mutton are pilling up in cold storage, what better proof do we need of the President's statement? --New York World...
...Delta, so named because, like the Nile, it suffers a yearly spring overflow, where, from his brazen seat, John Harvard frowns down at these roystering children of a frivolous generation, the banquet boards of 1917's hospitality will rest. And in Memorial Hall the ingrained odor of cabbage and beef from ten thousand dinners will be temporarily smothered under the fragrance of rose-water and culled flowers...
...nation lacks fully enough men for every service save chaplains. The experience of the warring nations has been that there are always enough chaplains. Their further experience has been that chaplains consume about as much canned marmalade and bully beef as those whose tastes are presumably more bloodthirsty. In a pinch, when face to face with necessity, a man can pray, or consign his soul to eternity without the aid of a trained intermediary...
...from nine to one. In Thayer Hall three you'll find they'll be They're white and green and awfully squee For twenty and worth the mon. And also seven to seven thirt. Before the big parade Which starts at eight in regal state By Holworthy arrayed. Good beef and bread is free to each, So bring a hunger grand, And all bring torches and all bring dough, It will come in nice at each side show, And help to pay the band. Come one, come all, and wear old clothes. For you'll get dirty...