Word: breaded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general the life of 17th century Harvardians was extremely simple, not to say severe. Only two regular meals were served each day, "dinner" at 11 o'clock and "supper" at 7.30 o'clock. The menu included bread, meat, and beer, with hasty pudding, or oatmeal porridge with eggs for variety. Those who wished an extra snack or two could have "bever" or a pot of beer and hunk of bread, served immediately after morning prayers and again at 5 o'clock in the afternoon...
...Bread 40? per loaf, butter $2 per lb., coffee $4 per lb., sugar 35? per lb. and the cheapest cigarets $1 for 20. Foreigners and Russians alike now pay these prices, established not by haphazard Capitalist supply & demand but by scientific Communist planning...
...buttery" ledger, was a "quarter dinner" held in the college four times a year down to 1765. The college butler prepared these meals. For one meal, in August, 1729, according to the "buttery" entry, the butler purchased milk, eggs, sugar, flour, nutmeg, "legg" of mutton, pork, squash, butter, pigcons, bread, apple pie, and wine. This meal cost 1 pound, 8 shillings, 7 pence, or about...
...Harvard student of two hundred years ago was fed in a manner closely resembling that of the English colleges, the "buttery" books reveal. Close to the main dining hall there was a pantry, managed by the butler, where students might order extra or special portions of choose, ale, butter, bread, jam, and the like, if they desired. When such an order was filled, the butler marked the purchase against the student's name listed on a record sheet tacked to the wall. Many of these record sheets are bound up in the "buttery" ledger...
During the eight week competition the business candidate gets a taste of the practices of the outer world where men are definitely working for their bread and butter. And the candidate is treated as one of them. The candidate's sales talk, or the letters to National advertisers which he dictates, are considered seriously, and the fact that he is still in college bears no detrimental influence...