Word: fac
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...huge menu of General Foods Corp. (1928 sales: $101,037,092) oysters join cereals (Postum, Grape Nuts, Post Toasties), beverages (Maxwell House Coffee, Instant Postum, Baker's Cocoa, Maxwell House Tea), as well as 34 other branded food products. From his fac tories and those of his 18 manufacturing subsidiaries, able President Colby M. Chester Jr. might select enough to sea son, sweeten and serve a nourishing poly-course dinner, in which only meat would be missing. For this deletion, meat-eating President Chester, son of a famed sea-admiral, might find satisfaction in the fishy products...
...have served to disturb the equanimity of Harvard's fertile backyard soil have at least been compensated for in part by such epic discoveries as that of the Harvard plates, dear to the heart of old graduates and more recent wives. But unless some former treasures of the Med. Fac. or the buried miscellanies and Imperial testimonies of similar secret societies be the result of the present activity, we can look for ward to little but the plebian and depressingly progressive activity of white gloved gesticulating yard oops and the existence of red and green lights, to signify...
...babble of voices grew excited, acrimonious. Fac^s grew red. Suddenly the State Senator clenched his fist and swung at the Governor. The Governor careened against the wall. Before he could retaliate, his secretary jumped at him, pinioned his arms. Most of the flushed group at once took sides, shouted and pummeled each other. Police were called, but when they arrived the scuffle had subsided to a murmurous discussion...
...eminently well qualified to speak on Harvard, either past or present, contains many entertaining stories, much solid history, and certain intangible traditions which have become the most lasting part of what the name Harvard signifies. All of this varied material--tales of the nefarious activities of the Med. Fac. society and the great Commons rebellions as well as Dean Briggs' interpretation of the part of the individual in Harvard life--is just as essential to a full understanding of the Harvard of today as of the Harvard of a century past...
...increasingly successful exponent for 150 years would ultimately prove weaker than the culture of Christendom." John Maynard Keynes, famed British economist: "I don't know!" Wilhelm Hohenzollern* apparently instructed his Secretary, Admiral H. von Rebeur-Paschwitz, to write the following letter, of which the Legion Weekly produced a fac- simile: "In answer to your letter dated May 31st, His Majesty the Emperor tells me to let you know that he regrets not being able to comply with your request. As to the question: 'What did the World gain by the World War?' I would think the only...