Word: eating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University's food problem started very early in fact it was the school's first problem and quickly developed into a major crisis. The Pilgrim Fathers, eager for as many parental restrictions as possible, decreed that all students must eat at a common table, an insistence which plagued administrators for the next 200 years. With Mr. Nathaniel Eaton as the school's entire faculty, students ate in his home. He was charged with serving mostly "porrige and pudding, and that very homely ... without butter or suet." The students maintained they received "hasty pudding with goat's dung...
...worst pests of the southwestern cattle ranges is sagebrush, which romanticists admire but which cattle will not eat. In many places it makes the range almost worthless. Mowing it down mechanically is a slow, costly...
...Jake had the edge in other small ways, e.g., his placements were steadier and he had learned the value of the lob. Since he turned pro in 1947, Big Jake had also learned about eating. When the schedule called for six or seven nights of consecutive play, he filled up on late-afternoon steaks and topped off with egg-nogs. But he cut down on the calories when there were off-nights ahead. Said Kramer: "I think I'll tell the fellows at Forest Hills, 'When it rains, eat light...
Movie stars and lesser folk who dropped into Los Angeles' Brown Derby, La Rue's and Romanoff's restaurants last week found little warning cards on the tables. The warning: don't eat our steaks. At $5.50 to $7.50 apiece, they were "entirely too much," because of the rise in wholesale costs. Begged La Rue's: "Stop eating steaks for awhile and bring these prices down...
When a group of priests in Boston were served what looked like frankfurters on a recent Friday, there were instant protests: "We can't eat meat today." Then the surprised priests were told to go ahead and eat them; the frankfurters were actually made of tuna fish. After other similar test runs on unsuspecting diners, "Friday Franks" were put on the market this week by Gloucester's famed old (89 years) Davis Bros, canning company...