Word: loaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After working, eating and sleeping, most U. S. citizens have some 40 hours a week left. They may loaf, talk, read, walk in the park. But their biggest single recreation, accounting for one-fifth of their spare time and a bigger proportion of their spare cash, is commercial entertainment. The U. S. people each year spend about $10,000,000,000 (an estimated one-fifth of their income) for all forms of recreation, including their public parks. One-third to one-half of this goes to the biggest U. S. industry-commercial recreation...
Next Tuesday will be only Washington's Birthday to those Harvard students who will dutifully loaf in honor of the Father of Our Country. But out in Cincinnati, next Tuesday will be lot more than a yearly holiday. For on that date, some thirteen Harvard Clubs will gather there for the first annual meeting of the Regional Harvard Clubs of five middlewestern states...
Pointing out that a man cannot loaf all week and then put in a tremendous day of skiing without endangering his physical well being, Cox emphasis ed that the prospective skier should do some kind of conditioning for weekend skiing, whether it be special ski exercise classes or a good, active, competitive sport...
...morning of July 7, 1889, John L. Sullivan rose from a creaking bed in a Rampart Street boarding house in New Orleans and ate for breakfast a seven-pound sea bass, five soft-boiled eggs, a half-loaf of graham bread, a half-dozen tomatoes, and drank a cup of tea. For lunch he had a small steak, two slices of stale bread, and a bottle of Bass' ale. For dinner he ate three chickens with rice, Creole style, and another half-loaf of graham bread dunked in chicken broth...
This does not mean, of course, that everybody will pass. In every class there are a certain percentage of gentlemen who prefer to loaf, or let other people do their work for them. With men of this breed the College will, and should make short shrift. Also there will be a few who are incapable of making the grade at college, no matter how hard they try. These, also, will feel the first tickling of the knife about their necks at the current "Hours." But the rest should find no particular difficulty with the tests...