Word: creams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richer or poorer, Dr. Funk's country was last week certainly getting hungrier. Butter, cream, other fats, some meats are rationed in Germany. Eggs, common vegetables often disappear from market. Non-nutritive but ingenious excuses are left in their place by the Propaganda Ministry. A recent onion shortage was blamed on an "onion corner" by "international Jewry." Last week Germany was being given excuses instead of coffee...
Junior Fellow J. C. Oxtoby has developed a new method which makes it necessary to stir one's coffee only once in order to obtain perfect mixing of the coffee with the cream. The mathematics by which he arrives at his new development is too complicated to go into here...
...thriller Gang Busters this week rounds out a three-year career in the service of law & order and Palmolive Shave Cream. It will have 110 candles, however, on its figurative birthday cake. Reason: every Wednesday night Gang Busters accompanies its blood-&-thunder re-enactments of real-life man hunts with alarms for important fugitives from justice, and listeners have tipped off the cops to 110 wanted men, including Kidnappers Percy ("Angel Face") Geary and Thomas H. Robinson Jr., Karpis gang Trigger Man Larry...
Lawrence C. Kingman, Jr. '39 yesterday set a new Harvard record by eating 27 plates of ice cream in Adams House...
...never lost his admiration for things American, or his pride in the language he had learned as a boy. He corresponded with American friends in English, taught English to his household servants, sent two Japanese girls to the Chicago World's Fair to introduce tea ice cream to America. Last year when an American friend toasted his 92nd birthday (Japanese are one year old at birth) he said he expected to live to be 125. But he had previously transferred his title to his son, Taro, and was ready for death. Last week it came to Tycoon Takashi Masuda...