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Prewar Colgate teachers averaged 28 hours of work a week (preparing, teaching, administering), were otherwise free to research, write, loaf. Today teaching takes up 18.8 hours, preparation (often of unfamiliar wartime specialties) 21.7 hours, other duties more than nine hours...
Another directorate of Morrison's is that of the annual Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a literary group that meets the last two weeks of August at Bread Loaf Inn near Middlebury, Vermont, to criticize and discuss each other's poems, short stories, articles, and novels. Louis Untermeyer, Robert Frost, and Bernard De Voto are on the staff. Morrison has himself published several volumes of verse, including "Serpent in the Cloud," 1931, and "Notes on Life and Death...
...lonely China outpost, TIME Correspondent Teddy White, waiting for a plane to take him back to his base, found English-speaking company and a place to loaf in a U.S. Army radio station. He also saw an unfamiliar side of service life, typed out his description on the spot...
...Franklin Roosevelt blamed the rise in the cost of living mainly on "our failure to bring food costs under control." The Bankhead bill, he declared, would compound that failure. "Under it ... the price of sugar would rise 1½? a pound, the price of bread might go up ? a loaf. . . . The price of corn could rise almost 10% which . . . would certainly call forth a demand for higher prices for hogs and livestock, poultry, eggs, milk. . . . These price increases . . . might swell the cost of living more than...
...backstroke saw Princeton's Tom Shand loaf his way to victory, without competition, in the strictly mediocre time of 1:39.1. Princeton also won a victory with Doran in the high board dive, and its 400 yard free style relay team nipped Rutgers. Representing Harvard, John Watkins, Ossie Morton. Barnes and Eusden qualified for the final only because Amherst's team disqualified by missing a turn, turned in a better performance with the chips down, to place third behind the two New Jersey colleges...