Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undergraduates who want to forget all about Saturday afternoon and hearken back to the previous week will have their chance at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Main Common Room of the Union, where complete movies of the Columbia game will be shown. Backfield Coach Davy Nelson will supply running commentary...
...anyone who has struggled over his own ham and tomato salad, the size and scope of operations in the main kitchen are appalling. Entering by the main receiving gate, you are at once confronted by rows of trucks piled high with sides of meat and sacks of potatoes. As you wander through the passageways, you see stainless steel cauldrons 'filled with soup stock; huge insulated cold storage rooms; and massive east-iron ranges sheltered under bulky smoke hoods...
...spite of the fact that individual House kitchens cook and prepare as many items as possible, the main kitchen must still do the bulk of the work for five Houses. Through underground tunnels the cooked food, kept hot in special manually operated trucks, is trundled with dispatch to the various dinning halls, making its longest run Leverett, House--in only eight minutes, including the elevator ride at the other...
...bakery, located in the basement of Eliot House only a minute's walls from the main kitchen, is an organization in itself. Here, surrounded by modern dough-making and molding machines, stands a baker stirring doughnut blanks in a cauldron of boiling oil,--Some day the bakery hopes to acquire a modern doughnut machine, but for the present this time-honored method of making them must do. Prize possessions of the bakery, however, are two huge built-in rotary evens that work like a Ferris wheel, carrying the pans of dough on slowly moving shelves, which insure an even heat...
...Self-Possessed. Two main characters dominate the novel. One is Charles Mallison, a 16-year-old boy who, in the scheme of the book, represents innocence and freshness, the potentiality of Southern white manhood unspoiled by ancient hatreds. Counterposed to Charles is Lucas Beauchamp, an old Negro farmer with some white blood in his veins, who lives in solitary dignity on a patch of land bequeathed by a white ancestor. Lucas Beauchamp is one of the most magnificent and majestic characters in all American fiction. "Solitary, kinless and intractable, apparently not only without friends even in his own race...