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Word: breakfasting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sleepily squirming into their warm flight jackets, the students straggle below for a muster. A quarter-mile run around the barracks gives them an eye-opener before they shave, make up their double-decker bunks, sit down to a hearty breakfast served up by corpulent civilian Concessionaire Moe Greenspan, better known as Moe the Greasepan, who loads their stomachs with 80 pounds of food a day, hears more complaints about the chow than a Congressman. By 7:45 they are pushing their yellow biplane trainers out of the hangars for the day's flying. It is still very, very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Fledglings | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...Vice Admiral Sir James Fownes ("Slim") Somerville, whose knowledge of naval traditions is indicated by the fact that his hobby is the highly technical one of making ship models, whose energy is indicated by the fact that whenever at anchor he rows around the ship four times before breakfast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Battle of the Mediterranean | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...reforestation, flood control, irrigation, control of soil erosion, other jobs of the C. C. C. type. The C. O.'s day, like the Army's, will begin about 5:30 a.m. But unlike the draftee he will have a few minutes after 6 a.m. breakfast for a group meditation based on the Quaker meeting. Evenings he will hear lectures on nonviolent methods of meeting problems and sociological issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Practical Pacifists | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

Champagne for supper, murder for breakfast, romance for lunch and terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...fire-eating Freshmen and super Sophomores who desire to gain universal acclaim as editors of Cambridge's great breakfast table daily should report to the Crimson building tonight at seven-thirty. You may not consider our news coverage of the best--in which case come out and show how it should be done. You may not agree with all our editorial policies, but don't let that scare you away. Come out and change them. On the other hand, you may think the Crimson is just perfect (most people do). In that case you're just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TONIGHT AT SEVEN-THIRTY | 2/11/1941 | See Source »

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