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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surprisingly large number of men take their meals during the first hour of dinner, a check of the House dining rooms revealed yesterday. The survey apparently blasted the theory that the hours should be shifted to accommodate large numbers of men who prefer toe eat at a later hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEN EAT SUPPER EARLY IN HOUSE DINING HALLS | 11/15/1933 | See Source »

...estimated at Winthrop House that 35 to 40 per cent of the men took their meals in the first half-hour. Fifty men ate before six o'clock its Dunster while 135 ate after that hour. Approximately 50 per cent of the diners at Leverett were found to eat during the first half of the meal period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEN EAT SUPPER EARLY IN HOUSE DINING HALLS | 11/15/1933 | See Source »

...mink is a long-bodied, short-legged, arch-backed member of the weasel family which likes nothing better than a fight. Minks fight each other, kill and eat almost any bird, fish or non-carnivorous beast smaller than themselves, some larger. In captivity they are clean, hardy, except for an occasional chirp almost noiseless. They need one meal a day, chiefly meat and fish. They like to swim but can do without it. Almost any country place where autumn weather is brisk will do for a mink farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Fur Week | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...were given a P.M.E. lunch. Everyone who has attended West Point knows what they are. The initials stand for Practical Military Engineering because it is the standard lunch for engineers. It consists of two sandwiches, one piece of cake, and one piece of fruit. We were allowed to eat the lunch any time we desired, but we usually tried to save it until eleven or twelve o'clock because we ordinarily had nothing more to eat until after the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lieutenant C. B. Palmer Recalls Life Of West Point Cadet From 1920 to '24 | 11/11/1933 | See Source »

...remember that we were allowed to have any spending money. Instead of money we were given five dollars each month in the form of coupons or "boodler's tickets" that could be exchanged at the Academy store for candy, magazines, and papers, or we could get something to eat at the restaurant when we were off duty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lieutenant C. B. Palmer Recalls Life Of West Point Cadet From 1920 to '24 | 11/11/1933 | See Source »

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