Word: beefed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this diatribe is that an educational institution cerebrates on its belly, and good scholarship must wait upon a balanced menu. Were the authorities to focus upon the problem under their noses, the path would straightway be cleared for the furtherance of the humanities. And incidentally pruning the bully beef and mutton chop outlay would not only finance the purchase of greens but might net Lehman Hall a tidy little surplus as well. Rhodes P. Frothingham...
When a British battleship does its victualing for a crew of 1,000 men, it takes aboard 15 tons of frozen meat, one ton of corned beef, three tons of frozen fish and half a ton of canned fish. Last week an M. P. from a coast county had an idea: "The British fishing industry is languishing. Could not the Admiralty encourage sailors to eat more fish...
...Stillwater, Minn, from his home in Chamberlain, S. Dak., went Charles M. Lockwood, 91, last man of the Last Man's Club (Civil War reunionists), to meet with the Bully Beef Club. World War edition of the Last Man's Club. Last Man Lockwood opened a bottle of rare old Burgundy four years ago, but the Bully Beef club had a battle-scarred can of bully beef to be opened by the last two survivors of its 286 members. Said Last Man Lockwood: "We ate many cans of bully beef during the Civil War but we chose...
...York Times which never permits slang to appear in its columns commented thus: "Good slang is 'sock on the jaw' and poor slang is 'economic Neanderthals' both from the collection of General Hugh Johnson. The first is as near to the soil as corned beef & cabbage; the second is recherché. Ninety-nine per cent of the accredited slang inventions are recherche...
Cattlemen had asked Congress to appropriate $200,000,000 to subsidize beef raisers and dairymen who agreed to curtail production. This made Speaker Rainey snort: "It might prove more effective and far simpler than appropriating these sums for the Government to take over the packing industry and operate it by the Government's paying fixed prices ... if the packers continue to exercise their monopolistic powers to drive down prices. . . . They are interfering with the entire program and stand in open defiance of the entire recovery...