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...Washington Senators in 1917, which was only recently declared "perfect" by baseball's official historians. The first Senator to bat actually reached first base, but he was walked by Pitcher Babe Ruth, who was prompt ly thrown out of the game for clouting Plate Umpire Brick Owens to express his displeasure. The runner was caught stealing, and Relief Pitcher Ernie Shore, called in cold from the bullpen, disposed of the next 26 Senators with out walking one or allowing...
Actually, Birdseye did not invent quick-frozen foods. Eskimos had followed the practice for centuries; European scientists had developed the theory to a fine point. Said Birdseye: "My contribution was to take the Eskimos' knowledge and the scientists' theories and adapt them to quantity production." Brick-hard, brick-size frozen food packages became a staple in U.S. kitchens. Many of the housewives who used the product never knew that Birdseye (spelled Birds Eye on General Foods packages) was a man. But, they paid him the greater compliment of using frozen foods so enthusiastically that in 1955 the industry...
...controversy arose over the fact that off-campus girls assigned to eat one or two meals a day in the smaller brick dormitories are also required to assume a considerable share in waiting on table in the dorm where they...
...resolution states "that girls in off-campus houses wait-on in the brick dorms where they eat unless inconvenient to that brick dorm. The work chairman in the off-campus house is to apportion her work program so that the total number of work hours of each girl in the off-campus house is equal...
...Radcliffe work program is designed to keep down room and board costs by requiring each girl to spend approximately two to four hours a week working in her dorm or house--either answering phones or waiting on table. Most of the brick dorms require the off-campus girls who eat there to share in the extra burden of work that they create...