Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upperclassmen and Yardlings have combined in swelling the effort to get the makes it necessary for the first-year man to pay doubly if a friend in one of the Houses invites him to dinner. All Freshmen are forced to pay for Union meals whether they eat there...
...Buffalo, N. Y. an alert newshawk turned up a willing candidate for euthanasia. She was Anna Becker, 34, a one-time nurse who was badly hurt in an automobile crash two years ago. Her teeth were knocked out. Her gums had failed to heal, she could eat no solid food and because of unhealed internal injuries even liquid food caused searing pain. Her legs swelled and hurt if she stood on them for a few minutes. She had been awarded damages of $6,000, of which she had collected nothing because of an insurance guarantor's bankruptcy...
...life with the natives, whose fantastic modesty and equally fantastic generosity delighted him. North Greenland Eskimos considered it impolite to mention their own names, always waited for someone else to identify them. When a host offered his guests food, he first apologized that it was not fit to eat. They believed that human beings could be trusted in all relationships except the sexual, consequently could not understand ideas of faithful marriages. Hunters exchanged wives freely, often committed adultery, but never without asking permission of the husband. Husbands were also amused and puzzled when white sailors sneaked around their igloos...
...hundred-fifty more names have swelled the list of students petitioning the University to allow first year men to eat a few meals a week in the Houses without having to pay for extra meals. Yearlings and other undergraduates have joined to bring the total number of names to more than...
Because all Freshman are forced to pay for Union meals whether they eat there or not, they foot the bill for two dinners whenever eating in the houses...