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...Graduate Commons has been using these trays since the beginning of the year, and they are unsuccessful, if not dangerous. There is, first of all, no starting point on a circular tray; the unsuspecting diner may find himself commencing his meal as often with a grapefruit as with a leek. Worse that that, the circular trays tend to revolve under the slightest pressure of fork or finger; the centrifugal force generated by a hungry student can send sprays semi-liquid food onto his neighbors. A spinning tray can also cause dizziness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Revolution in Trays | 12/15/1950 | See Source »

MAJOR F. E. LEEK, U.S.M.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1943 | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...volume is the second, for it contains observations on French politics which deviate sharply from the accepted portrait. France, according to Professor Guerard, never was a democracy, but rather a dictatorship of the middle class. It has always been governed by a bureaucracy which since Napoleon has clung leek-like to the tenets of bourgeois liberalism. The author favors a cold-blooded recognition of the fact that Parliamentarianism is not a French idea, and that government by a score of parties without a strong executive is impossible. These observations may be sound political theory, but the reader is left...

Author: By T. S. B., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 5/20/1942 | See Source »

...Kedgeree of Kidneys), Savoy Chef Latry (Fried Swedes; Pickled Swedes*); Mrs. Neville Chamberlain (Fish and Leek Pudding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...Told a leek grower, "You can arrange to send some of those leeks to London for me. I am fond of leeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Errand of Mercy | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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