Word: fared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regards calories, the Bulletin was irate: "Regarding the system of estimating calories, Childs should offer an explanation, for the bill-of-fare says that bacon contains 300 calories, while bacon and eggs contain 380. That allows 80 calories for eggs. Fried ham alone contains 400 calories, but add eggs and you have only 390, so that eggs lose their calories when fried with ham but preserve them when fried with bacon. On the other hand, Childs tells you that fried eggs alone have 190 calories. Can you figure...
...Harvard commons so long dispensed in it, is no mere local event. It may well be pondered by institutions of liberal education throughout the land. If criticism could have killed it, Memorial Hall would have perished long ago. Sometimes it has been derided for the scantiness of the fare, as when the Lampoon wrote years...
This has not always been so. At least an older brother (1912) who dined with me once at the Freshman Halls declared that the fare had deteriorated greatly since his time, and I have no reason to doubt his word. The trouble seems to be principally with the sort of cooks the authorities have obtained, and I see no reason why the University cannot secure the services of cooks as good as the restaurants have. Richard Baltzly...
...good old days on the surface lines students would crowd, on the cars and bluff the conductor out of his fare, but now in the subway with the fareboxes, they can no longer get away with it much," he said. On days when the crowds were especially large, such as on Saturdays during the football season, according to the former conductor, only about half the fares were collected; but now very few people get by without paying, even in the greatest crowds...
...Europe (TIME, Sept. 29), disbanded in Paris. Some headed for Berlin, others for Rome, some for the Riviera, some for the battlefields. All were agreed that the trip had gone far enough. Despatches stated no causes, but probable ones were: bored spectators, slender receipts, foul weather, diverting sights, fare, people...