Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After breakfast he was driven to the sheds. Mechanics were busy wheeling the twelve-cylinder Girtiss aeroplane out of its hangar. The engine was tested; it ran perfectly. Maughan donned his parachute, climbed into the machine. A few seconds later he signalled to the mechanics to pull away the chocks, he opened the throttle, the engine roared, the 200 early-rising spectators screamed a parting welcome. The aeroplane ran along the ground for a short distance and then soared majestically heavenward as dawn began to dispel the gloom...
...Blue eight will also be in the finals on Saturday. The Eli oarsmen leave Gales Ferry at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. If they win on Saturday, they will not return until Sunday evening, but if they lose they will be on deck at Gales Ferry in time for breakfast on Sunday morning...
Nowadays, however, the routine has changed perceptibly; after breakfast the question of the precocious daughter is no longer, "Mamma, ought I be starting for Sunday school?", but "Hey! Daddy's swiped my nibble!" The college education of parents, too, which in spite of Mr. Bertrand Russell's opinion to the contrary is genuinely liberal, has created an atmosphere of surprising toleration and intelligence in the home if they wish to read poetry on the day of rest, instead of exercising, modern children, resort no longer to Lewis Carroll and R. L. S. They turn for mental nourishment to the subtle...
Coach Stevens' and Shaw's eights took to the water at 11 o'clock in the morning and pulled over a six mile course. Several men had examinations but the daily schedule calls for reveille at 6.30 and between that hour and eight the men dress and breakfast. Examinations begin promptly at 8 o'clock, an hour and 15 minutes before those in Cambridge...
...Democrat and nothing loathe to attack in the Senate the Republican President who vetoed (TIME, May 12) the Bursum pension bill: "I arise to charge the President of the United States with having become a lobbyist. As such, his activities are being carried on at the breakfast table of the White House, where his power ful and penetrating propaganda is being delivered to Members of the Congress who have been previously feasted on buckwheat cakes saturated with New England maple syrup. "Since Eve was tempted by the serpent with the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, never has there...