Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What's more, the Army really works up an appetite in you. I think nothing of drinking three or four glasses of milk, and eating three pieces of bread, and several desserts for each meal. I'd probably take more if I could eat fast enough...
...talk on provisions by Captain McIntosh. All who came to Cambridge fresh from the feminine stronghold of Northampton agree that lectures from regular Navy men are increasing their stock of nautical vocabulary and seafaring lore by leaps and bounds. Now when seen an old salt knocking a piece of bread against the table before eating it we know it is a holdover from the days when weevils made their homes in the provisions before sailors went to Supply Corps schools...
Even larger quantities of vitamins are used in food processing for the enrichment of bread, margarine, milk...
...Riboflavin (formerly vitamin B 2 ) is widely used in the poultry industry to stimulate egg production, is also used as a preventive of some eye inflammations and fissures of the lips. It is recommended for the enrichment of bread, but the supply is small because of the shortage of equipment in wartime. Within the past year its price has dropped from 75? to 58? a gram...
After a year in Santo Domingo, Steinberg reached the U.S. last July. At once he felt at home. He is most amused by American women, especially "the middleaged, fat [ones] eating in cafeterias always a piece of bread, always smiling." Explains he in Steinbergian English: "The adventures for these women who are accustomed to quiet lives and banalities are so funny when things happen to them." Steinberg is somewhat more explicit about...