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...powder to bear meat, but that it usually results from the flouting of two basic rules: 1) food handlers should have clean hands, and 2) there must be no delay in properly storing food. Said Dr. Carl C. Dauer in Public Health Reports: "Food stored promptly in an inexpensive icebox is less likely to spoil than food placed in the most elaborate refrigerator after a few hours' exposure at room temperature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Poison on the Plate | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...cabbage is the source of the first hangover cure that Clayton and Langdon actually recommend: sauerkraut juice. "Every icebox," they say, "should have this Universal." They also recommend "the Spirit of '76" (spirits of ammonia), and an international array of pick-me-ups. These usually contain at least one hair of the dog in the form of Pernod, curacao, cognac, absinthe, Fernet Branca, or just plain white wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Universal Hangover | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...Owning no yacht, motorboat, private airplane, country seat, automobile, icebox or TV set ... I hesitate to forward this questionnaire," wrote one English reader. "Besides, I am a little piqued at finding no space for the make and year of my bicycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 24, 1952 | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

...building it is easy to live outside the rooms. On every floor there is the customary smoker, with a kitchenette tossed in. According to Heddy Schumacher, the housemother, no one has yet complained of any icebox raids. On each floor there are also drying rooms with laundry facilities, and two bath-rooms, with two baths and six showers. One freshman complained that as she was sitting next to a tub on the first day of the term wearing only a man's shirt the door suddenly opened and a man walked through, pausing only to give her a bewildered glance...

Author: By Erik Amfitheatrof, | Title: Holmes: The Pine Wonder | 10/7/1952 | See Source »

...actually eat better here than in the dorms," they claim. Helpings of food are plentiful, and there is the added attraction of raiding the icebox between meals. Peanut butter, crackers, and fruit are to be had for the taking at Peach House. Girls sign up for the things they take and the cost is apportioned at the end of the year. Harvard men often appear as guests at meals, and generally seem impressed with the domestic talents of the girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Students Praise Cooperative House System | 3/12/1952 | See Source »

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