Word: beefed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scandinavian-looking farmers. They had come from as far away as California, most of them in automobiles and "house-cars" (trailers) which they had parked in a camp far out on Massachusetts Avenue. For five days they crowded Washington Auditorium, fraternizing, listening to speeches, consuming hamburgers with gravy (5?), beef stew (20?), buttermilk (5?), alfalfa tea (5?) in the basement until it was rank with mixed smells. They were "Jehovah's Witnesses"-otherwise known as the International Bible Students Association, followers of Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford...
Lord Chatham could not possibly have had the Harvard dining halls in mind when in one of his letters, he let drop this pearl of wisdom. Yet had be written in just after some Beef a la Dutch had been dropped down his lordly neck without so much as an "I beg your pardon," or a request for another noggin of milk had been answered by a noncommittal noise in the throat, his remark could not have been more...
...crime addicts, much of the grue went out of the case when a State chemist reported that the vault stains had not been made by blood, that the bones were from roast beef and had probably been dragged under the veranda...
While all this was going on, the price of cotton climbed from 8? to 11.7? a lb.; wheat from 59? to 90?; corn from 39? to 85?; hogs 4? to 7.8?; beef cattle 4? to 5?-national farm income from the neighborhood of $4,000,000,000 to more than $6,000,000,000. Not even AAA claims responsibility for all these gains. Drought and dollar devaluation worked in the same direction...
White Bread 3¾... Beef, boiled...