Word: branly
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...doctors are right when they censure the kinds of food students preer, but no eating place operated by the college can ever remedy this for long. The only way to improve the situation is by educating the students themselves to at bran or bone meal or whatever it is the doctors say is necessary...
...dignity of clothes, they have been ornaments first, and conveniences second; and if they fail in their first function, modern men can console themselves with the reflection that men in general would be still homelier in a state of nature. Clothes, whether of starched linen or silk padded with bran are the masculine defense against exposure as a two-legged animal without feathers; and so long as one can keep the skeleton in a more or less endurable closet, innovations looking to the trifling detail of comfort will always meet with a cold reception...
...table one morning last week, according to their several dispositions, they found their parents reading with serious mien the editorial page of The New York World. Little did they know what seemingly diabolical plots were being hatched against them. Had it been otherwise, their post-toasties, shredded wheat or bran would have been pushed aside in a paroxysm of childish petulance...
...would-he delightful to be a committee! For decisions would be unnecessary. The vexed question of getting up, for instance, could be well left to the following day because there was no quorum. Doubts as to whether to eat bran of graham inufilns for breakfast would dissolve for they could be referred to a subcommittee which in turn would consider recommending the consideration of recommendations...
...bran and other by-products of milling, 7½% ad valorem (present rate 15%; limits under the law, 7½%-22½%). The new tariffs will go in effect after April...