Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard apparently is not particularly worried this year about the eating problem. It may be that last spring's uprising was only a momentary gesture of those who were soon glad to return to tray-carrying three times a day. For a time it seemed that the tyranny of the cafeterias was to be ended; but the pledge to eat in the promised dining hall met with a disappointing number of signers. There was no specific objection to the food in the Freshman Halls, which was of the quality promised in the new University eating-place; there was simply antipathy...
...estimated that if anything happened to America's tin supplies about 25% of American husbands would go hungry, for the simple reason that tinned* food has robbed American women of their culinary art. The U. S. is effectually sealing itself in a tin can. Half the food Americans eat is tinned." That was to prove to his stockholders that their tin investments were based on a sound commodity. Then he let go with another toot: ''Americans are so busy and so imprisoned in their tinned lives that they never pause to consider what would happen...
...Fred H. Forrester, who had left his $110,000 fortune for the permanent care of his collie, Shep, for the welfare of all homeless or abused dumb animals in Colorado, and for the construction of drinking fountains for dogs and horses in Denver streets. Dog Shep had refused to eat for a week after Mr. Forrester's death...
When U. S. citizens go to Canada it is usually for primitive reasons-to shoot or fish, to ski or skate, to eat, drink or make honeymoon. Secretary of State Kellogg had out his top hat and went to Canada last week. But his was a highly civilized reason. He went to pay back the ceremonious call which Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King paid the U. S. last autumn (TIME...
...world. Located in Manhattan, it will include 41 rooms, 16 baths, John Markle, servants, and many pieces of old, expensive furniture. Famed for his manners and mustache, both rough and blunt, Mr. Markle once said that he was successful in finance because "I'd rather fight than eat." Asked what he planned to do with his 41 rooms, Mr. Markle replied: "It's nobody's damn business...