Word: creams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Westcott, Manager of the University Dining Halls, stated last night that probably the delay in transportation caused by flood waters was responsible. It seems possible that partial separation of the cream may have occurred. He added that in spite of its taste the milk was perfectly wholesome and approved by State authorities...
There had also begun a slow infiltration of mediocrity into the graduate student body. Bigger and richer universities, primed with ample funds and numerous undergraduates whom they could pay their graduate fellows to teach, were outbidding it for the cream of the nation's annual scholarly crop. Only last spring Hopkins awarded fellowships to two promising students, before autumn saw them lured away by the promise of bigger subsidies at Harvard and Yale...
Unlike Greyhound, Trailways is not a corporation. It is an association of five big bus companies, three little ones, each with individual franchises, terminals, routes. Each will continue to act as a separate unit, run only its own busses. But all busses will be painted a common cream & maroon, bear a common name, issue through tickets on each others' lines, will therefore to the public seem identical in function with Greyhound. Only difference will be that Trailway riders will change busses frequently, no great disadvantage because bus riders constantly have to get out anyway...
From Indiana high schools, the cream of the U. S. basketball crop is skimmed every year by the Western Conference, still the major league of U. S. college basketball. First pick goes to Indiana's Big Ten representatives-Purdue and Indiana University. Last autumn when the Conference season started, it looked as if these two and five others-Northwestern, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Ohio State -were all about evenly matched. By last week, when the season drew to a close, it was once more manifest that "Hoosier" basketballers play their best for "Hoosier" schools. Indiana finished after winning eleven...
With the business centres of Tokyo, the cream of the swank embassy district and an increasing number of Japanese public buildings in their hands, the young Army mustards did not swagger, did not strut. Their informal eating and drinking place was soon the Sanno Hotel. When a white correspondent asked daringly if he might come in and look around, a mustard sergeant nodded and smiled, "Certainly. I regret that you cannot book a room, however...