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Word: breakfast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Early-rising auditors with a taste for genuine esoterica can begin their morning in the Robinson Seminar Room where Architectural Sciences 253 takes a full two hours to probe the mysteries of Reinforced Concrete, a three part course examining the respective problems of slabs, beams and columns. Those foregoing breakfast may prefer a broadening hour in Pierce 226, during which the theoretical chemistry of coagulation, corrosion, and sludge digestion are surveyed in Engineering 271a, guaranteed to make undergraduates flush with excitement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Trouble With Monday | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Harold sleeps in the Common. He awakes each morning to the sun, a stomach growl, and the stolid stone gaze of Lincoln watching Garden Street--at about seven-thirty. He usually steals a newspaper on the way to the Square (Dick Tracy fascinates him), and eats breakfast at the Bick...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: DOWN and OUT in Cambridge | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

Eating is a serious business--a matter of man's ultimate adaptability, involving both a sinister intuitive sense and a strong constitution. Breakfast is a cup of coffee (with cream for added nourishment) and a ten-cent side order of buttered toast. (Harold watches with a surly viligance; there's always the chance that the grim, spindly individual who passes for an all-night cafeteria cook might slight students on butter.) Harold is careful not to tear apart and devour the bread; his meal is precise and aristocratic, punctuated with frequent glasses of free water...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: DOWN and OUT in Cambridge | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

Kitty: They're all coached by chaperons. One girl said at breakfast: "My whole state is praying for me." I threw up in my coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Summit | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...better than three years, dark-haired, dynamic Editor-Publisher Charles Foley has shaped his Times into a trimly edited, headline-splashed eight-column paper that generally has islanders choking on their breakfast. He thinks, and says, that British policy is a mess. He loudly deplores Greek terrorism for destroying all chance of peace. He blasts the island's Turkish leader for stirring up racial hatred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tough Times | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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