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...Week," said President Hoover last week. "Everything that can be done to make home life pleasanter is a distinct contribution . . . to the highest spiritual values of life." As their contribution to Better Homes Week the President & Mrs. Hoover with six friends ate a meal (split pea soup, meat & rice loaf; baked potatoes, cabbage, carrot salad, lemon bread pudding) that cost 23.6¢ a plate, cooked and served by Girl Scouts at their Little House in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Caught on a Cape | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

...good tennis, and a show." Jones. In Atlanta Robert Tyre Jones Jr. made his first public appearance since his retirement from amateur golf. It was a charity exhibition-match on his home course; Jones was playing with burly John Golden against Gene Sarazen and Horton Smith. He seemed to loaf, was tail-ender of the foursome, which ended in a tie. Still to be determined is his professional-amateur status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Debutants | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

Owners must provide food for their animals. Kangaroos are one of the cheapest animals to feed: they are content with a can of condensed milk, a few pounds of potatoes, a loaf of whole wheat bread daily. Good meat for dogs can be had for 10¢ a pound. But dog acts often require many animals. Last fortnight Bill Blomberg, vaudeville performer, stationed his 32 unemployed Alaskan huskies with Roofer McHugh, fed them about 50 Ib. of meat three times a week. Elephants eat the most. They need at least a $2.50 bale of hay every day. Living in Roofer McHugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Unemployed | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...classroom, in the small conference groups, and in the lecture halls. They will do the outside work assigned to them, but little more. In most cases it will be wise to assign but little outside work. The men of greater ability and avidity however, will be less likely to loaf, for there will be something more to do after the easy B's and easier C's are collected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRECEPTORIAL SYSTEM | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the two-hours conference system, with four two-hours periods a day, involves heavy work for the student. Nobody can loaf. Nobody can shirk. Nobody can bluff. However, the two-hours conference system has not scared away students from Rollins, widely advertised though that system has been. This year's enrollment shows a twenty per cent increase, and we have a waiting list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rollins System of Education Places the Initiative of Study in Hands of Student and Abolishes All Lectures | 1/6/1931 | See Source »

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