Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present his liquor control plan. High points included exemption of beer and light wines from taxation, legalization of "taverns" equipped with bars. "I see no practical difference between taking a drink sitting down and taking one standing up," he declared, "and no particular efficacy in requiring one to eat a meal because he wants a drink...
Student waiting is universally employed at Amherst, most of whose students eat in fraternities or boarding houses taken over by various fraternities...
...grinds. It is not at all uncommon to find men who are taking two heavy laboratory courses, a Physics course with a reasonable laboratory, period, and some reading course for distribution; such an individual will spend his mornings rushing from the lab to a lecture and back; he will eat his box lunch in Mallinckrodt, where the rest of his day is passed; he will then return to spend the evening over work for any or all of his four courses, or in preparing for one of the frequent science course quizzes, and will finally drop into bed with...
This seems scarcely possible with the tutorial coyness at its present maidenly height. Like the shy wild creatures of the woods, perhaps only the extreme cold of the winter will induce them to eat at the tables where food is so kindly profferred. "In the trenchers by Christmas" would then be the motto for their conversion. But the undergraduate members of the House can hasten the process of domestication by always acting kindly, and never doing anything that might startle a tutor. Occasional tenders of friendship from the students, such as cocktails, or a snifter...
Having swept the small fry from the greensward in the Yard with their magnificent presence on Saturday, the Army Cadets scattered in all directions. Some went to eat; others became conspicuous in their grey-blue bathrobe effects at a drafty corner of Memorial Hall where they listened to a picked handful of Union Square athletes. But many climbed up into Widener for a bit of sightseeing. The turnstile area was soon clogged with cadets. Partly from curiosity and partly from necessity about a dozen stepped gingerly into the Farnsworth Room. To their complete astonishment, a scholarly young man sitting...