Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the age-old formula, box lunches consist of four sandwiches; usually salami, sliced cheese, soggy tomatoes, bread, all uniformly unappetizing. An apple or orange, warm milk, and crumbled cookies complete the ration. It is no surprise that the wastebaskets begin to look healthier than the students...
...quality of the sandwiches could be easily improved. One made of fresh bread covered with mayonnaise or some other spread, placed firmly around good-sized portions of meat, and another with tasty jam would be much more welcome than the present four appetite-killers...
...front row, listening intently, sat the guest of honor, Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum, 72. He has done more than any other man to put vitamins back in the nation's bread and milk, to put fruit on American breakfast tables, fresh vegetables and salad greens in the daily diet. Incidentally and unwittingly, he started a booming business: every year Americans spend $250 million for vitamins (four-fifths of it for pills and capsules). Much of this spending, Dr. McCollum believes, is foolish, because most people can get all the vitamins tney need from proper diet. Elmer McCollum...
...Bread and Butter' Course
...classes, Harvard's are large all the way through--around 130 for the first two years. A student will be called upon two or three times a term. At Yale entering men go into classes of about 75; from then on meetings average 40 members, though some of the "bread and butter" courses draw upwards of a hundred...