Word: eating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meal, it is considerably less than delightful. He will finish his dessert in a hurry, and leave, no matter whether there is a meeting of the debating club at the Union or the speech of a prominent European. To him the Union is the place where he has to eat, but it is not a social center. So the Freshman doesn't have a social center; he waits anxiously--to move into a House, and until then he is often completely lost. Besides, he never gets the Class loyalty that is so valuable to him later, for sentimental reasons...
There'll be no fried chicken tonight for the 450 'Cliffe-dwellers who eat in the college's dormitory dining rooms, and there'll be less bread--and no meatballs--on Tuesdays. Radcliffe undergraduates, getting a full week's planned by Harvard, are by official action giving complete support to President Truman's plan...
...President's suggestion was far from a complete solution. Voluntary campaigns in the U.S. have a tendency to excite large numbers of people for a short time, but to produce few concrete results. Most Americans would probably neither eat less nor waste less until their pocketbooks forced them...
...scarf-to eat...
...eat-dog air-freight business, the showdown had come. So far as the independent carriers could make out, the issue was plain: Would the scheduled airlines, which had been slow to wake up to air freight's possibilities, be permitted to drive the independents out of business? The scheduled lines' weapon was a rate war - the 12?-per-ton-mile tariff recently proposed to the Civil Aeronautics Board by American, United and Pennsylvania-Central Airlines. What roweled the independents was their firm conviction that the scheduled lines could do the job only with the help of their Government...