Word: loaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schoolboy "Freddy" was incurably lazy, but too poor, too brilliant to loaf. Luxurious Oxford (which costs rich students $3,000 and more a year) beckoned. To Oxford, after seizing scholarship after scholarship by angry force of intellect, went poor Freddy. He stayed there nine years, squeezed dry every scholastic sinecure, was called to the Bar in 1899, and, as a young barrister of acknowledged, unparalleled brilliance, moved upon London...
...loaf of bread into eight slices. Lay one slice flat, and on it set the other seven upright. That loaf is the total of college undergraduates. The horizontal slice is the freshman class; the seven vertical slices are the residents of the seven Houses. Two of the new House Plan buildings, Dunster House and Lowell House, are ready for use; a third, Eliot House, are ready for use; a third, Eliot House, is begun. In each of the two finished Houses about 300 men, from the sophomore, junior, and senior classes, begin study this week. This year the freshmen remain...
...civic enthusiasm as for poetry, recently backed the city's campaign for a lake to augment an inadequate water supply, by writing a signed and widely-circulated voters' bulletin. Excerpts: "You speculate on the practical uses of Lake Springfield. . . . The next afternoon you are inclined to loaf, take the trip over the Lake Springfield trail. . . . Climb into the family bus and hit the trail. . . . Linger through the evening. Watch the sun go down in purple splendor, and study the famous afterglow of Central Illinois, the benediction...
...many a citizen who goes to California to loaf soon finds himself vigorously engaged in some new occupation...
Officials of Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, Inc., coast-to-coast U. S. aviation system operating air schools and taxis in 40 cities, doubted that Luft Hansa could find much profit in its half-a-loaf policy. Curtiss-Wright rates, reckoned as low as any in the U. S., range from 30? to $1.60 per mile, depending upon the type of ship used. The return trip must be paid for at the same rate...