Word: bread
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anti-Sectarian. In St. Louis, Andrew Thomas Stevenson sued for divorce, complaining that his wife refused to feed him any white bread, white sugar, or meat because it violated the Scientific Order of Spectro-Chrome Metrists' rules based on "solar, lunar, and terrestrial radiant gravitation influence...
...Millinery Workers International Union. But this latter day hatter, who divides his time between Adams House and Littauer as one of the fellows under Harvard's Trade Union plan, isn't eccentric like Lewis Carroll's haberdasher. He's just peeved; peeved at "hatless Harvard." Hats are bread and butter to Mr. Wagenfeld. Harvard men care very much for bread and butter; very little for hats...
...accident payments, allowances for educating children, and a dozen or so others. These boons are not just gravy to be sopped up frm the public platter. Every pension is contributory, to be paid for largely from payroll taxes borne by the workers themselves. Beveridge cannot be accused of purveying bread and circuses...
Workers in heavy war industries receive ration cards for 1 Ib. 9 oz. of bread daily; monthly allotments of if 1¾b. of butter; 4 Ib. 7 oz. of meal; 1 Ib. 2 oz. of sugar; 4 Ib. 14 oz. of meat; 2 Ib. 3 oz. of fish; 14 oz. of salt; 1 oz. of tea. Those doing less heavy work, children and dependents get roughly two-thirds as much. But ration cards cannot provide food when there is none. Doctors estimate that Russians have lost an average of 15 pounds each during the past year. Although bread lines...
...students and professor alike settid down to listen to the weekly bread-cast of the Philharmonic orchestra that Sunday afternoon. In preparation for History I quizzes the next day, men attacked Thompson and Johnson with their accustomed desperate urgency. Some went to movies, others lingered at dinner. All in all, it was a very ordinary lazy Harvard Sunday afternoon...