Word: dish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dining Halls management has often insisted that the amount of food thrown away is negligible. But the Food Committee found wanton waste all too common in the Halls. Incompetent cooking causes one dish after another, especially vegetables, to be returned to the kitchen un-tasted. There is no expert, full-time dietitian in charge of the menus. These are the main leaks in the pipeline from the market, where the Committee found that Harvard buys good food, to the gullets of House members. As a result, much of the food is unappetizing, and the board rates are so high that...
...Concert Pitch, the best damn musical novel I ever read? As an author myself I don't like to see this - Poet Christopher Darlington Morley is not even eligible for membership.-ED. slipping of your department editors into the wrong pews. We can take what you dish out to us in our proper place-but don't let your Music people write so coyly of books, or your Art people write so well on crime (Art Gallery Mystery in the same issue...
...sides, and add milk by degrees until a thick smooth batter is formed. Beat well for ten minutes, then add remainder of milk, cover, and let it stand for at least one hour in refrigerator. About half-an-hour before beef is due to be done take deep dish, put in a thin layer of dripping taken from meat tin, and while dish and dripping are getting thoroughly hot in oven beat up batter well again. Take dish and dripping from oven and pour in batter, place in hot oven and bake for about half-an-hour, or till browned...
...60th among 125 cadets. At 21 he wrote, in clumsy, inept calligraphy, a pathetic little self-portrait: "My strongest characteristic: gluttony-I never get enough to eat. My credo: self-respect-I believe in myself. My weak points: none. My favorite book: Momotaro [a heroic fairy tale]. My favorite dish: boiled millet and soup with dry leeks [a poor peasant food...
...expect to be sharply scaled down, rearranged, recapitalized, thus bringing more security underwriting business to hungry Wall Street than it has seen from one source in many a year. In Wall Street, in Washington, in many a lesser place the burning question last week was: who is going to dish out all this...