Word: codfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hobby is writing letters to the newspapers. I propose to write to you a letter each week, and I take the stand today, for the first day, on the subject of codfish...
...past five days I have consumed approximately $ Ib. of codfish. This codfish, taken with parslev sauce, has greatly enhanced my vigor and has done me more good in these days of blackouts and long hours than all the vitamin pills and fanciful health notions officially recommended...
...hear him, all who could pushed their way into the House. They sat in the narrow, uncomfortable balconies, squatted on the floor, endured stoically the stale air loaded with the aroma of codfish served to the M.P.s during a recess for lunch, and warmly cheered...
Away with Codfish. Lowell-who preferred being called "Mr." rather than "President"-began at once to remodel Eliot's Harvard. Eliot had built up a distinguished faculty but had let the undergraduate college slump. Under Eliot's famous system of free electives, many Harvard undergraduates chose snap courses, thought any grade higher than C ungentlemanly. Snorted Lowell: "The B.S. degree is a certificate not of a man's mastery of science but of his ignorance of Latin...
...never satisfied. Long after he grumbled: "No wonder there is so much knowledge in colleges. The freshmen always bring in a little, and the seniors never take any away." Said he of I.Q. tests: "No good, no good-like trying to measure Tremont Street with a codfish...