Word: loafing
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Forced to land in the wilds, what will the prudent aviator rejoice if he has remembered, regret if he has forgotten? Pilot George H. Buck of Idaho, last week, prepared a list. Useful cargo: i carrier pigeon, i loaf of bread, i big knife, i canteen of water, i ham, i shotgun, i six-shooter, i axe, i motor generator to supply light...
Four Years' Loaf...
...even careful phrasing is soon garbled by the inferential methods of headline writers. By spreading thin the butter on their first loaf the Governing Board of the Union has rationalized the honor, and set a standard of importance for the awards that are to come...
...minds what they wanted to study, or those who would rather read novels than trace historical tendencies or spend their afternoon in a laboratory in other words, the larger part of the men who are concentrating in English a chance to browse is practically synonymous with a chance to loaf. But for the "constraining effect of divisional examinations" they would never attempt what little reading they do, and English, as a field of concentration would be of even less benefit than...
...successor chosen, Dr. Goodnow will "loaf for a while"; in May will represent Johns Hopkins in England at the three hundredth anniversary of Harvey's discovery that blood circulates; will probably ride around the Mediterranean...