Word: food
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When has a chef or a cook ever ap peared on a British Honours list? Yet the man who cooks your food ... is as important as ... a dozen great painters, literateurs, or musicians...
American Airlines furnished Jones with his gas (twelve times the normal load), oil, food, hotel suite, weather and compass course. Jones furnished American Airlines with good publicity for its southern low altitude route across country. Like the misdirected Douglas Corrigan, Jones during his return to Los Angeles will exhibit himself and his plane at airfields which dot the American Airlines route. He will probably sell a lot more Aeroncas when he gets home, having proved that, with a pilot at the stick who doesn't need much sleep, baby ships need not be confined to the environs of their...
...majority oppression. At Adams, Lowell, and Winthrop the inconvenience which House dinners cause the students not sitting at the high table counteracts the theoretical academic benefits. At quarter past six the dining hall doors are flung open, a vast throng pours through, scrambles for seats, and clamors for food: this approximates the scene which takes place each week in these Houses. And this mass sits and waits while a small group of tutors and undergraduates eat in tuxedo splendor to the tune of choice "dinner-table" conversation. Until the subway rush on the nights of House dinners is eliminated...
Only Ghandi and an occasional actress will deny the basic importance of food, but those who are committed to the task of educating will argue that even more important is the locale and environment in which students keep body and soul together. In 1930 Dean Hanford said that the House System had done away with the deplorable effects of "eating around," and President Conant has on several occasions pointed out the broadening, stimulating and even educational effect of the dining hall system upon those who share its blessings...
...several moths a small group of men and women drawn from the college, from the graduate schools, and from Radcliffe, have quietly been working as hard as any other comparable group in the University. Obstacles in the way of the projected cooperative often seemed insuperable. There was the food to be contracted for, the cooks to be hired, the legal status to be established, the money for furnishings to be raised, and above all, the housing to be provided. In comparison to the housing all other problems were easy; the scarcity of available halls--and the rents charged for them...