Word: loaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Endeavoring to find out just how the House members occupy themselves during the summer months, the questionnaire asks: "Did you have a job last summer? If so, what was it? If not, did you travel, loaf, or go to summer school? If you had a job, did it have any connection with your future work...
Bread 40? per loaf, butter $2 per lb., coffee $4 per lb., sugar 35? per lb. and the cheapest cigarets $1 for 20. Foreigners and Russians alike now pay these prices, established not by haphazard Capitalist supply & demand but by scientific Communist planning...
...recording the frozen gloom which had become Herbert Hoover's face during his last two years in office. In his turn President Roosevelt, determined to set a Presidential high in frank, free, friendly treatment of the Press, had Secretary Early give the photographers a White House room to loaf in, proved most patient and generous in allowing himself to be snapped in all manner of unstudied, and sometimes thoroughly unheroic, attitudes. Though presumably annoyed, he made no public remonstrance even when a lingering photographer caught him greeting Mrs. Roosevelt with a kiss on his return from a 1934 vacation...
Wheat & Corn reacted a few cents last week but grain surpluses are small. Flour was cut as much as $1.38 per bbl. Some bakers cut the price of bread 1? per loaf. In addition to having fewer taxes to absorb, biscuit bakers and packaged food concerns will probably gain from bigger volume at lower prices. Last year their attempts to pass the tax on to the consumers made many customers so mad that they organized "buyers' strikes." Starting as a protest against the high price of meat, these strikes were ultimately directed against nearly all high-priced groceries. Last...
...nucleus for the present proposal. The staffs of these schools are competent to teach elementary courses of College calibre in History, Government, English, Mathematics, the Language, and most of the Sciences. There are at present many alumni of this group in the College who are able to loaf through their Freshman year on the training received in courses similar to those open to them here. This waste and repetition should be saved by giving credit for the work done in the preparatory schools and making the Freshman year a valuable part of a Harvard career...