Word: dine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter was hotly argued last week in Manila's tiny sari-sari shops by the flickering light of kerosene lamps, in Bangkok's "thieves' market," where peddlers cautiously hawk rare Siamese antiques, in Singapore's Tanjong Rhu, the "millionaires' club," where wealthy Chinese dine on shark's fins and suckling pigs while outside stand row on row their parked Cadillacs and Daimlers...
About 40 College students with after-noon labs in the graduate quadrangle have been using Harkness for convenience. They were told yesterday, when they attempted to enter, that they must dine at their own Houses...
Even after the mystery came back to the U.S., through the first two decades of the 20th century, crimes were committed in the grand old English manner. Murder was still a puzzle, and whether S. S. Van Dine, Ellery Queen or H C Bailey were writing the rules, the mari who found the answer was a citizen of superior intellect. Whatever he collected for the job, he actually worked for intellectual satisfaction. It was not until 1929 that a slim, sardonic operator named Samuel Dashiell Hammett published Red Harvest and gave murder-to say nothing of lesser crimes-back...
...dining hall department has engaged Harvey J. Wachtel, a graduate of the Business School, to act as special assistant during the experimentation. Wachtel will dine in each of the Houses and help to judge the proposed changes...
Some places, people dine at noon; in Cambridge, it is the hour of decision. In this case, one man's steak is another man's roast beef. Arthur Schlesinger's History 169 (Room 18, 2 Divinity Avenue, Harry Levin's English 126 (Harvard 4), and Perry Miller's Hum 111 (Sever 18) are the competing extravaganzas...