Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grass (to keep away insects), others who wore only strings of polished fish scales or small stones around their necks and hips. At some stops, their presents of candy, fishhooks and pocket mirrors were rewarded by exhibitions of war dances and feats of bravery. One great problem was food and drink. They sat down to meals of diced wild turtle, and wild boar hash ("Good, too," said De Carvalho), but politely declined offerings of broiled green lizard and a drink called chicha, which native women made by chewing corn, spitting it into a bowl and giving the product time...
Polls taken in four House dining halls will help determine possible money-saving methods of serving food next term. For four days last week, students employed by Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, tabulated the amount of food students put on their trays...
Checkers worked in Adams, Kirkland, Lowell, and Winthrop, noting both the amount of food students picked up and the quantities left over after the meal. However, Tucker observed that results of the survey may not be fully valid, since "students do not consume as much food as normal when they are being checked...
Dilworth rushed into the dining hall and was just catching the last button on his vest when the Chinese gong sounded, signalling the end of the food-serving period. He cleverly managed to steal a tray as the last stack was being carried away, and hurried along the serving line gathering unto himself everything that was still available. When he reached the end, he surveyed his fortune; and finding everything but the goat's milk unfamiliar, stood frozen near the jelly table in a state of stark amazement...
...what's all this strange food?" he asked...