Word: gage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because 350,000 of those covers had to be in our Philadelphia plant. The only train that would get them there in time was the Broadway Limited Monday after noon and one interesting complication we ran into was the fact that the Broadway Limited couldn't handle bag gage the size of a printed TIME press sheet, so we had to cut the sheets up small and make special small size boxes to fit them. So among the crews which were working for us on double time on Sunday was a crew of carpenters summoned to Donnelley...
...Pratt place became a restaurant in 1913 when it was purchased and restored by Miss. Frances D. Gage, and open days the Cock Horse Inn. But that time Cambridge had long since parted with her cherished "chestnut three", in favoring of widening Brattle Street. But what the Cock House lacked in hallowed foliage, it made up in wholesome tasty food. Before long its fame as am eating place had spread throughout New England. This to the extent that a rhapsodic passage on "crab meat souffle" a la Cock Horse may still be read in Donald Heinz's "Adventures in Eating...
...recipients are: Georges Brigham, Rivers; Hugh Calkins, Exeter; Bille C. Carlson, Exeter; Walter F. X. Collopy, Loomis; Charles A. Coolidge, Jr., Groton; Robert D. Cross, Exeter; Daniel D. Gage, Exeter; Richard L. Gardner, Noble and Greenough; David W. Hardy, Thayer; Harold C. Hinton, St. Paul's; Gilbert King, Jr., St. George's; Dryden P. Morse, Belmont Hill; Francis Parkman, Jr., Brooks; James W. Perkins, St. George's; Henry A. R. Peyton, Andover; Charles P. Slichter, Browne and Nichols; Stephen B. Smart, Jr., Milton; John R. Thompson, Andover; J. Robertson Ward, Jr., Milton; Bigelow Watts, Jr., St. Paul's; Alan...
Reasons emanating from the Joe Miller Memorial Emporium for their failure to reply to the challenge were that President Coles Phinizy had grown pale and left town, immediately on receiving the gage and that the rest of the 'Poons have been down with severe cases of dysentery for a day and a half on account of the poor food which was served them at their last dinner...