Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Costumes ranging from suits of armor to grass skirts will feature the Dunster House Spring Costume Ball tomorrow night. A prize will be given to the best and most original costume worn. Also featured will be the winners of Monday night's swing contest who will play an entire set with Andy Kirks" Clouds...
Like mad Nebuchadnezzar, who sheeplike browsed Babylon's pastures, U.S. parachute troops and other isolated forces can subsist on leaves, wood and grass. At least, Biochemist Gustav J. Martin of New York thinks so. But, as he told the American Chemical Society in Memphis last week, soldiers' guts first have to be conditioned to this allfours diet, by getting certain harmless bacteria domiciled among the trillions of other bacteria normally present in the human intestine...
...salt, the esthetic sense of a crackajack travel agent. Of glacial origin, Lake Pend d'Oreille is a favorite summer resort for the Northwest, is one of the largest U.S. fresh-water lakes (35 miles long, six to 15 miles wide). At either end, broad grass-lush prairies melt into smooth bathing beaches; on the east, steep cliffs stand sheer from the water, mount on up into the snowcapped Cabinet Mountains. The lake is fish-chocked: trout, land-locked salmon, whitefish. In summer, scores of pleasure boats, bright with paint, nose over...
...price of vegetables is prohibitive for most people. Lettuce sells at a shilling a head, broccoli at a shilling a pound, mushrooms at five shillings a pound, cauliflower at one shilling sixpence a head. At Cambridge, undergraduates have begun, not very heartily, to eat grass, on recommendation of the School of Agriculture...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola's inexperienced Crimson squad is still a question mark as far as the result of the annual contest is concerned. With very green dashmen, and equally grass-colored quarter and half milers, the main burden of upholding the Crimson end of the meet would seem, at the present time, to rest on the shoulders of Johnny Bunker, Dick Pfister, and Mike Ford in the field events, and Bill Palson, Captain Bob Houghton, and Don MacKinnon in the races...