Word: household
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everyone would gain from such an arrangement. The Administration could offer prospective students relief from household chores, and at the same time reduce its operating budget. The new maids would be storing away valuable experience for the day when they must cater to the domestic habits of their husbands. An the students would not complain as long as their room were kept clean...
Among the "other ways" were ordinary household chores, plus candlemaking, soapmaking and dressmaking. "Little girls did not go to school much in winter," Grandma recalls, "owing to the cold and not warm enough clothing." Therefore she got only "through the Sixth Reader...
...Recently a German Protestant churchman, so the story goes, gave the Pope a cardinal bird. But the old. established birds would have none of the newcomer, and the Protestant cardinal had to leave the papal household...
...meals are sparse-spaghetti, vegetables or eggs, watered wine. He always eats alone, waited on by German-born Sister Pasqualina Lehnert, his housekeeper (sometimes jocularly known in Rome as La Papessa), or one of the four other nuns who are assigned to serve in the papal household...
America's household cat and dog population has reached an alltime high of 49.3 million, the American Can Co. reported this week. The dog population is 22.6 million (v. 17 million when the last survey was made six years ago), and home-based cats number 26.7 million. Dogs are owned by 41% of all families and cats by 29%, but the average dog-owning family has only 1.34 dogs, while cat-owners average 2.21 cats to a family. (Not included in the census were waifs, strays and pets living in stores and factories.) This year, more than 1.5 billion...