Search Details

Word: chowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

According to the terms of the proposed agreement, all three gentlemen will sit down to a meal and whoever loses foots the bill. The local due are convinced they can upset Yale's answer to Man-mountain Dean because they boast palates "conditioned by copious amounts of Army chow, Southern barbeque, and Cambridge beans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Out to Out-Eat Hickman . . . | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...stray sophomores, the Yard is populated entirely by first-year men. Eating lines are modest, since the Houses have divided up and absorbed the mob of upperclass non-House residents. This allows Union executives enough yardage to make the Union a true freshman center--not just a chow hall--and to plan ahead for activities previously impossible or extremely difficult...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Year | 10/26/1948 | See Source »

While Union chow lines have been decimated by this move, House men report a considerable increase in their waiting time. Comparison of meal counts for October 6 this year and last reveals an approximate increase of nine percent in the number of meals served in the House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Meal Crush Eased by Transfer of Non-Residents | 10/13/1948 | See Source »

Peaches & Somersaults. To many of the Californians, who clung together like Englishmen in the jungle, London was a strange, provincial place. The men from the Coast bunked together four in a room, hit the chow line as a unit. For dates, they met California girls at Earl's Court, a district halfway between Uxbridge and Southlands College (where the U.S. women's Olympic team was quartered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Golden Boys | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Pampered Legs. At 23, Mel Patton looks fragile enough to be bowled over by the smell of locker-room sweat. But he has run the 100 yards faster than any man living or dead-in 9.3 seconds (an unofficial world's record). In the chow-line last week, a husky teammate yelled at him: ''Step aside and let us weight-men in. No fuss, now-you're the one man around here I can lick." Patton, grinning, yelled back: "Better be careful, Moose, I gained a pound last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Minutes to Glory | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Previous | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | Next