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Word: mained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charge prices not above 50 cents for different "combination" breakfasts, and 70 cents and 90 cents for table d'hote luncheon and dinner with a choice of main course. "Specials" similar to those served in the Freshman Dining Halls and the Union should also be available at additional cost. There should be reduced rates for men "signing on" in advance for longer periods: $11 per week and $40 per four-week period are suggested as fair adjustments. Students should be allowed to pay cash or charge their meals on term-bills as they prefer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Build New Dining Halls" Is First Suggestion of Winner | 12/1/1926 | See Source »

Professor Fisher dismisses Wet statisticians, saying that they need training. Then he proceeds to his main argument: Prohibition is working, cannot be thrown aside, can be made to work better. Important points: 1) "A great net good is being realized, including over six billion dollars a year in cold cash values." (Half due to increased earning-power due to sobriety, half due to savings not dissipated in drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Drink | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...main task of the first congresses was to reconcile the students of the exbellarent countries and this was fairly well achieved by means of travelling student commissions and orator delegates from the various countries. In 1924, Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey sent student representatives to the Congress at Warsaw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HABICHT RECOUNTS C. I. E.'S HISTORY | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...fortune of everyone to be either a Kiwanian or a Rotarian and therefore the non-fraternal portion of America is left with a cup of coffee, a sandwich, and a tin plated armchair. The Forum author endeavors to solve the enigma. "To me our main difficulty seems to be a failure to make a distinction between the two words gourmand and gourmet. When we cease to regard eating as something to be done purely out of habit, finding in it instead untold aesthetic delights, our only regret will be that we did not comprehend earlier." So, after all, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOURMAND-GOURMET? | 11/18/1926 | See Source »

...morality, with scarcely a mention of economics, and as it is some of our ablest economists who are arguing for debt cancellation on purely economic grounds, Mr. Bausman's intricately woven garb of German innocence British duplicity, and American simplicity is a scant, almost indecent, covering for his main contentions...

Author: By Paul BIRDSALL ., | Title: The Gentle Art of Propaganda | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

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