Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called me a glutton," said Lady Strabolgi to The Hon. Mr. Justice McCardle. "As a matter of fact I keep thin and eat as little...
...observer in the Freshman Dining Halls these long spring evenings notes that while the doors open at 5.30 very few men avail themselves of the opportunity of eating until six o'clock or after. Statistics show that in one dormitory less than 30 percent eat in the first hour. The peak is reached...
...number of hikers has been eat almost in two, helping to prove that the desire of the Freshmen is for games requiring speed and head work instead of merely strength and endurance. This is further evidenced by the increase in such sports as lacrosse, handball, baseball, fencing, and polo as well as tennis and track while hiking, swimming, singles, and crew decreased...
...they are called "salmon." (Latin salmo means "a leaper.") Goal of the jostling, leaping fish is the quiet of the Yukon's upper pools. Swimming stoutly against the current, it will take them all summer to reach the headwaters. On the long trip (2,000 miles) they eat nothing, slowly burning up the fat oil they have amassed in the sea. In the autumn they reach the clear, placid upper reaches of the river. There the males, haggard, savage from starvation, tear each other with fierce beaklike jaws, fighting for mates. The female scoops a nest in the sand...
...Scout hatchet, drinking cups, sleeve less sweaters, knickerbockers, an oiled sheet (for a tent), a fox terrier (for luck). No man molested them - neither bandit, desperado, nor escaped Siberian convict. They lived on the land, eating black bread and water, berries, mushrooms, honey, milk. After five years in Russia (they were working on "educational-economics" at famed Kuzbas Colony, some 2,000 mi. east of Moscow when young Spring came to their feet) they returned to Manhattan bearing only a gift towel. They care absolutely nothing for property. Said Dr. Elsie Reed Mitchell: "Once when we slept in a natural...