Word: frugalities
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...overseers bought the farmhouse, surrounded it with a six-foot fence, planted 30 apple trees and turned over the whole establishment to its first master and sole teacher, Nathaniel Eaton. A poor choice. Though Eaton was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, he had a vile temper, and his frugal wife apparently served the twelve students mackerel "with all their guts in them" and hasty pudding spiced with goat droppings. When Eaton finally attacked an assistant with a walnut club "big enough to have killed a horse," he was hauled into court, fined and fired. Harvard was shut down...
...greatest nation in the only world we know," Cuomo believes that his mission is to meld old-fashioned compassion with fiscal common sense. In jest, he calls himself the founder of the Progressive Pragmatist Party. He is quick, however, to trumpet what would be its platform: a kind of frugal liberalism, conservatism with a human face. If this self-described progressive pragmatist can act as mediator between the Democratic Party's left wing, including Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, and the assertive right, symbolized by the Democratic Leadership Council, he could become its center of gravity. In defining himself, Cuomo...
...FRUGAL GOURMET, Smith...
...STATISTICAL approach, this perspective of Harvard history works quite well. That the Harvard Corporation recovered from the financial catastrophe of President Kirkland's administration (1810--1828) is a credit to the school's frugal Puritan origins. However, this same New England ethnocentrism accounts for the disturbing story of minority enrollment at the College...
...Washington society matrons, Doole seemed the very image of discreet old money. In fact, he grew up poor, of strict and frugal Lutheran parents, on a 160-acre hog and chicken farm in Liberty. He went to aggie school at the University of Illinois, where he kept to himself. "We were not real buddy- buddy," says his sister Mildred Nation. "We minded our own business." Winning a commission in the Army in 1931, Doole learned how to fly airplanes. He later became a pilot for Pan Am, at first flying old Ford Tri-motors on the Guatemala-to-Panama...