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Word: humbling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Annapolis last month, or at Cambridge just a few days ago, the humbl fare of the Yale dining halls seems shockingly inferior in both quantity and quality. All that we had seen at Annapolis steaming, platers sticked high with chicken halves, soup fuveens full of chocolate chip ice cream, pitchers overflowing with milk all remained vivid in our minds as we retreated back across the Vistula. And by the banks of the Charles our far-famed social franquility went to the winds as we gorged like men half starved on salad pilled high with thousand island dressing, reast beef...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON STARVING GOTHS | 12/2/1952 | See Source »

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