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Word: meals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council. Voting by the preferential ballot system will take place during the lunch and dinner hours in the seven Houses; Dudley held its elections during lunch yesterday and will do so again today, spreading its voting over a two-day period because commuters cat their evening meal at home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 37 Candidates Will Compete For 8 Council Places Today | 12/6/1950 | See Source »

...delivered by airdrop. Next day, at 8 a.m., the big push got rolling. At first, enemy resistance was so negligible that some soldiers who had had no chance for a feast the day before because they were on the move sat down and gorged themselves on the fine holiday meal sent up by the quartermasters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Stalled | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Noting that last year's divorce rate in Baltimore was near the 3,000 mark, professional Meal Sampler Duncan Hines concluded: "There must be something wrong with the cooking here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Golden Moments | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...black uniforms, and spectacularly dished out unspectacular food while a string trio played dinner music. A lady dispensing coffee obsessed with her duty to maintain a polished atmosphere, apologized for serving coffee cups on plates rather than saucers to students who usually balanced their coffee on trays. Dress for meals at Yale is not so consistently formal as it is in the Houses. Ties and coats are required for the main meal of the day but are usually optional otherwise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Colleges Outclass Houses as Social Centers | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

Complaints about the food filter to the masters with about the same regularity as the Student Council gets them at Harvard, and they dwindle into the same obscurity. The Yalies' case for improved fare is even less sound, since they pay only $11 for a 21-meal ration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Colleges Outclass Houses as Social Centers | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

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