Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longtime president and chairman (1943-59) of Minneapolis' General Mills, Inc., the nation's largest flour miller ($524 million in sales), who joined the company as a mill hand in 1919, caught the eye of Founder James Ford Bell and became his chief lieutenant, helping expand breakfast foods (Wheaties, Cheerios), push on into convenience foods (Betty Crocker cake mixes) and half a dozen other businesses from chemicals to electronics; of Hodgkin's disease; in Minneapolis...
Students now feel rushed in many of the dorm dining rooms. At the breakfast and lunch buffets, food is served for only half an hour. At the "sitdown" dinners, served by student waitresses, all students must begin the meal at the same time--and finish it about half an hour later...
...twenty-five years of loving scholarship, beginning with his undergraduate thesis at Harvard. It represents a classic synthesis of the two major styles of modern biography. With few exceptions, scholarly biography in the twentieth century has been characterized either by massive detail (what Sinclair Lewis, for example, had for breakfast) or by brisk, selective interpretation (Andrew Turnbull's fine F. Scott Fitzgerald). In reconciling the two extremes, Professor Bate has not only produced a great biography, he has also--more importantly--provided a new definition, by example, of the profounder uses of scholarship...
...nine o'clock class seems to be as heartily detested by teachers as by students. Like breakfast on a camping trip, the offerings at this time are less plentiful than nourishing. Mathematics for poets (Nat. Sci. 114) offers a sampling of what is new and exciting in mathematics, something which concentrators have to wait years for. A full-year course, Bio. 100, systematizes departmental offerings in evolution. Ec. 133, on the economy of Soviet Russia, gives a foundation for deciding whether we are ahead of or behind the Russians when it comes to wheat surpluses...
Steiniger helps Sinclair's gasoline sales in even little ways: after a quarter-mile swim before breakfast at his home in Norwalk, Conn., he shuns commuter trains to ride all the way in a chauffeur-driven car to his Fifth Avenue office...