Word: cart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between an interesting meal and a depressing one. All of the dining halls in the University average the same expense per diner, and one office does all of the food buying. The central kitchen must take a longer time getting foot from stove to mouth, but an elaborate steam-cart system partially compensates for this. The interhouse lists at Adams and Duster point to the tangible attractions: Adams' salads, Dunster's sandwiches. Cowie Hall is reputed to have fascinating fruit salads...
...whom Gifford calls "the best jazz trumpeter this side of New York." Then they branched out. They went twice to Smith College (Gifford is carried away by the memory where 200 girls in sweat shirts and dungarees sat in a semicircle and shrieked for the real oldtimers like "Coal Cart Blues" (an Armstrong standby). And they found another faculty supporter in Roy Lamson, Jr. '29 clarinet-playing professor of Sociology at Williams...
...marks out its territory, as many animals do, by the scent of its urine. So every time its cage is cleaned, the loris feels dispossessed. It "has to drink incredible quantities of water straight away," says Dr. Hediger, "and sprinkle the nice clean floor systematically just like a watering cart...
Down with the Jury! The common practice in dealing with a jury in disagreement, writes Author Bernard O'Donnell, Fleet Street crime reporter, was to load its members into a cart and haul them around the city "so that a jeering populace could express their contempt for men so heedless of their duties as citizens." All in all, readers who still think that King John's Magna Carta brought a fairly modern sense of justice into British courts will have their eyes opened by Author O'Donnell's blood-curdling history of Old Bailey...
...superblock is designed to house 5,000 people, includes a central area with elementary schools, playgrounds and parks, and a shopping center. Three superblocks make up a district, with the high schools, swimming pool and auditorium for the district in the center superblock. Only footpaths, bicycle and bullock-cart paths cross the superblocks: all bus, truck and automobile traffic goes around them; for direct traffic to the capitol from outside the city, two wide highways, called greenways, run from end to end of the city. A rivulet running through the valley will be dammed at one end for a lake...