Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent in Cambridge, the firm's consultant visited both Harkness and various restaurants in the Square, comparing cost and quality. Lack of choice and the necessity of buying full meals at Harkness were the major faults he uncovered, according to Stewart. Since Harkness uses a higher quality of food and must pay union wages, its prices are not unreasonable, it was found...
Several students said that they cannot afford to eat out. They suggested that food in Harkness Commons is deteriorating and that this order is designed to increase lagging patronage there. One declared that "It is not the tradition of the University to govern by ultimatum." Others objected that they have already invested heavily in refrigerators and cooking equipment...
...council has already banned their sale without prescription in Kansas City. When the ban was proved unenforceable, Missouri's Thomas C. Hennings Jr. introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate to put sales of amphetamine inhalers on prescription only,* require druggists to keep records of sales. Now the Food and Drug Administration has decided to issue an order, under its present legal powers, to accomplish the same result. As for the Pfeiffer Co., it has resolved to drop amphetamine and, like S.K.F., put a nonstimulating product in its inhalers...
...Food angina can be equally bad: some patients, accustomed to pain after eating, develop a conditioned reflex so that the mere sight of food produces an attack; some, from fear of the pain, starve themselves into another kind of illness. ¶ Physicians can induce angina if, instead of relieving angina worries, they give the patient an exaggerated idea of the gravity of his condition. An electrocardiographic test or the sight of the consulting room may touch off an attack. "Treatment," says Dr. Briggs, loyal to his profession, "is very difficult...
Dima is the son of White Russian parents, a suicide father and a mother who has somehow managed to keep a little money. Mamma's apartment is one of those Paris crow's nests where tea, scraps of food and family belongings are hoarded under beds and a running war is maintained with the concierge. Author Marsh, 36, who has some autobiographical credentials for her story, writes with authority about the grubby side of Parisian life, has woven the fly-by-night painters, writers and plain frauds into her story with the sureness of a Parisian landlady counting...