Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Graball Harthwart, director of the Dining Hall Department, speculated yesterday that contaminated corn may have caused the epidemic...
With its "Cal Aggie spirit"-corn-fed coeds, boys in cowboy boots, and an honored honor system-rural Davis seems almost anachronistic in the age of urban universities. That is precisely its pitch. "Our isolation is important," says genial Chancellor Emil Mrak, 62, a noted food technologist who used to teach at Berkeley. To justify his $10 million-a-year building program, Mrak has only to point at California's jammed cities and freeways. Davis appeals as an oasis-part farm, part suburbia-where everyone still knows everyone else. Cars are disdained in favor of bicycles...
Aber No Sweat. As a result, Anglicisms are now weirdly lodged in most major languages. Russian futbol fans cheer a fourvard's goal, jeer an offside penalty. Western-vowed stilyagi (Teddy boys) call themselves Tom, Dick or Harry, and breakfast on corn flakes...
...feed grain dealers and elevator operators, the wheat cannot move fast enough. Bumper harvests have gorged Midwestern elevators, and millions of bushels of corn and sorghum have just been dumped on the ground. In Hannibal, Mo., the corn is higher than an elephant's eye. Smack in the middle of lower Broadway lie 57,304 bushels of corn in a pile two stories high. The U.S. has lately sold corn to Hungary. Would Russia like some...
...products that the company whips up yearly on its research budget of $3,500,000. Only six or eight of a year's budget of products ever get to the shelves. Currently Nabisco is test-marketing "Team Flakes," a four-grain cereal of wheat, rice, oats and corn...