Word: cater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, Matchmaker Jack Hurley had another idea; the trouble with boxers was the same thing that was ailing everybody: "They're living too soft, they're eating salads instead of meat an' potatoes -restaurants today cater to women. Kids who could go ten rounds, now barely get through four." The list of alibis grew: automobiles, high wages in factories, the G.I. Bill of Rights (which has lured some pugilistic prospects into colleges). Hard times, all low-spending promoters agree, have always spawned the best fighters...
...tinto is red wine; to Colombians, it is a tiny cup of black coffee-and a social institution that ranks with the Englishman's tea, the Argentine's mate and the Norteamericano's cocktails. Over their four or five daily tintos in drab little cafes (many cater exclusively to lawyers, bullfight fans, et al.), Colombians make & break governments, trade plantations and gold mines, brood about mistresses and write poems...
William B. Cater--Adams House...
With a thousand-odd Freshmen to juggle into sections, the English Department cannot cater to every man's pet whim. Prior preparation of the Veteran's Book list further limits the possible materials and the section man, having already planned his course, cannot effectively arbitrate at the last minute. But neither can a student effectively work in a field foreign to his bent, to which he is arbitrarily assigned. His literary acquaintance may be broadened but not his interests; and with no participation in the selection, his education suffers...
Last year's speakers included Robert V. Hansberger '42 who discussed "Education in Our Democracy"; Douglass Cater '46 IPA, talking on "A Challenge to Free Men"; and James B. Peabody '45, who took the Latin part, "De Animis Sodalium Exeitahdis...