Word: buffet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mosaic Carpets. To contrast with nature's grandeur, the Owingses tried to make the interior snug and warm. The only floor coverings are the pebble floor-mosaics designed by Mrs. Owings, but art abounds in the house-paintings by Morris Graves, drawings by Buffet, a candelabra by Seymour Lipton. When someone remarked that the house, with its redwood sheathing and massive chimney, was reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright, Nat Owings, a longtime aluminum-and-glass specialist, was taken aback, finally admitted: "Wright was a master of the organic philosophy of design. Perhaps anyone who reaches toward nature, or wants...
...Alsatian engineer, drilling for water, brought in the country's first paying oil well. What Frondizi saw, touring by open car, was a brash and bustling boom town (pop. 23,000) where the sprawling trailer camps are guyed by wire against the 75m.p.h. gales, where tricky tides buffet the three to four ships putting in daily at the busy port, where U.S., British, Dutch and Italian oilmen elbow up in nightclubs to watch chorus lines as sprightly as the best in Buenos Aires...
Various money-saving experiments--based on preliminary indications--will be tested in University dining halls from Dec. 5 to 13. Buffet-style dining, in which each student serves himself, will "definitely" be tried, but other experiments "will depend upon the data we receive," said Trottenberg...
...mind was flashing now, he had heard that there had been no breakfast last Thursday, and vague reminiscences of the Administration's decree told him that on the weeks Thursday breakfast was omitted, Sunday breakfast was served. That meant, of course, that this was the week of Tuesday's buffet lunch, but at least there wouldn't be liver for Monday's dinner until next week...
From the point of cutting food costs at the same time, the buffet plan has a distinct advantage. If a person, say, did not appreciate creamed cauliflower, he would not be forced to take some as would happen with the pre-filled tray. The amount of food prepared might be reduced, and almost certainly the amount thrown away would be minimized. Result: less expenditure for labor, and possibly less for food, with the added advantage of individually-determined servings...