Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those days, Merrill said, waiters were stationed at the dining hall doors to slam them shut immediately when the clock on Memorial Hall sounded. Even if you were within ten feet of the door, you couldn't get in. Eliot insisted on punctuality. "If students can't get to breakfast before 9 o'clock, they don't deserve any," he used to say. "We're bringing...
...Invitation. General Mills got into war work half by choice, half by invitation. The first war orders came naturally-dried eggs for Lend-Lease, precooked breakfast food and vitamin preparations for the Army, oat flour for paratroopers' basic rations. Then General Mills thought of its small, efficient manufacturing division (food-packaging machinery, milling equipment), decided to get a few machine-made orders. The first job was making plungers for ammunition hoists. Then General Mills got a prism order, ran it off in record time by perfecting a device to grind 54 prisms simultaneously. With this greyhound start, the company...
...long-needed daily paper came along under the name of the Harvard Daily Herald. News was the leading thing in this paper, Cambridge's first breakfast table daily. And in October the Herald joined with the CRIMSON as the Herald-Crimson, which became The Harvard CRIMSON only...
...Bill has more than colorful dialogue. He uses psychology, too. After years of early rising, he is fully aware of early morning blues and he gives all his patrons special sympathy and attention at breakfast time. Men over forty get the compliment, "Hello, young man," each time they enter, whereas the downy-cheeked Freshman is always addressed as "Mr." and is treated with extreme respect. Bill knows each of his customers by name and does most of the work behind the counter. He rises at five thirty, works thirteen hours a day and is always in a good humor...
...squeezes down 70%, hamburger bulk is reduced 55%. Puffed rice, voluminous as a pound of feathers, can be compressed 86%. Puffed rice, combined with powdered skim milk and sugar in a lozenge, can, with the addition of warm water, swell into a mess cup full of ready-to-eat breakfast food...