Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most interesting features of the flat $8.50 charge entitling. House members to the first fourteen meals they eat per week is the fact that it places a premium upon eating breakfast away from the House. The mathematics are complicated but they run something as follows. In the first place is will be instructive to consider the case of the man who goes ahead and eats the first fourteen meals in any week. We find him on Friday noon having eaten four dinners, five breakfasts, and five lunches. At the quoted per meal price of .80, .30, and .60 respectively...
...food for only $8.50. But just as he is at the peak of pleasure over this triumph, a more talented friend suggests that if he had also eaten all breakfasts in the House, he could have done so at the slight additional cost of seventy cents, for a flat $10.50 charge is made to those who eat twenty one meals per week in the House...
Seventeen minutes flat was the time it took Germany's famed "Iron Man," Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley* Schacht, to read entirely through before he would sign, last week, the Charter and Statutes of Europe's new Bank for International Settlements (TIME, Sept. 23 et seq.). The official text, adopted after a six-week negotiation by world potent bankers at Baden-Baden, is in English. Delegates from the U. S., Britain, France, Italy and Japan signed without conning over a document with which all, including Dr. Schacht, were excessively familiar. That made six signatures. The seventh?Belgium's?was not affixed...
...Currier '32 was winner of the second annual handicap cross country race held yesterday afternoon over the flat Charles River course. His elapsed time was 27 minutes, 49 seconds, and his handicap was 2 minutes, 20 seconds. He was followed by M. J. LaGrange 1G. Arthur Foote '33, F. J. Murphy '33, and it J Goduti...
This afternoon at 3.30 o'clock the second annual undergraduate cross country race for the Gragg Richards '02 trophy will take place over the flat Charles River course...