Word: codfish
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...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...
...sunlit, stuccoed San Juan, beggars collapsed on the streets. There were fist fights when 22,000 pounds of spoiled codfish were dumped into the sea by customs inspectors. Last fortnight the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart reported, after a tour of the island, that storehouses were empty of rice and fish, that only a month's supply of beans was available. In San Juan, prices soared: the cheapest kind of beef meat sold for hamburger at 59? a pound, small brown eggs were three for a quarter, onions 40? a pound. Quinine to use against malaria...
...motley armada of transports, barges, converted yachts, tugs and a codfish schooner, heavily convoyed by naval craft, waddled up to one of the treeless humps which stick out of the northern sea, emptied men and materiel into lighters and landing boats. Under command of 41-year-old Florida-born Brigadier General Eugene M. Landrum they rolled shoreward through the surf. Caught by surprise or too harassed to do anything about it, the Japanese did not raise a finger. Ten days later U.S. engineers had built an airdrome big enough to accommodate air transports. Fighting planes were taking off from...