Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changes an apparently normal young-or-not-so-young girl into a raving manlae. Scientists have advanced various theories, but the one we like best is that of a girl who, after sitting through six performances, sobbed out that she wanted to "take him home, give him a hot cup of tea, smother him with hot water bottles, and tuck him-into...
...weariness, shoulders hunched against the chill wetness, they sit with their feet in the gumbo. Hot coffee is a Waldorf luxury. Wood is too wet to burn. When some anonymous genius discovered that the two wrappings around the K rations would burn just long enough to heat a canteen-cup of coffee, he won the soldiers' undying gratitude...
...longer will there be the old carefree days of private flats and charwomen who bring in a bedside cup of early-morning tea. Under new regulations, officers will be billeted in hotel rooms and flats which the Army will rent. The usual rule will be: three junior officers, or two majors, or two lieutenant colonels to a room. Colonels can live alone. The Army will pay for rent, gas, light and telephone up to a total of $4 a day. Officers will still get their $1.25 a day for food but not the extra $21 a month. A mess will...
...Beside his bed, as poets have paper & pencil on which to catch a night thought, he has an adding machine on which he can punch out his own mathematical visions. At 8 o'clock he has his invariable breakfast of one egg, one piece of white toast, one cup of black coffee. Shortly before 9, he walks to his four-car garage, steps into his 1941 black Lincoln Zephyr, swings around a fishpond in his front yard and out through wrought-iron gates. In ten minutes, he drives to his Santa Monica factory. He steps from his car, walks...
Douglas Danner '46 Naval ROTC, will succeed O'Day as chairman of the committee for the MacMillan Cup, for which members of the yachting association compete annually. The final dinghy event of the 1943 season, a Brown University invitation meet held November 7 at Providence, was won by the cadets of the Coast Guard Academy, with M. I. T. taking second honors...