Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time was when Chicago meat packers had become an important factor in distributing other food products. Their widespread agencies, with 'transportation connections and refrigerator facilities, made it possible for them to distribute many grocery articles more cheaply than had been done previously...
...word as to what this method is: the field to be covered is outlined and a schedule made for this accomplishment. At regular conferences thereafter reading is assigned the student, and there follows a discussion of the reading done since the last conference. This discussion is the meat of the tutorial work. The student is expected not only to outline but to criticise, the tutor meets the criticism not with contradiction but with counter-criticism and with argument, and the "conference" ends a literary conversation, in which for the moment the distinction between instructor and instructed has dropped away...
...District of Columbia judge, last week, released the five dominant meat-packing concerns from their forced vow to divest themselves of and "forever disassociate" themselves from subsidiary lines of business. Had they not taken this vow in 1920, the then Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, would probably have sued them for breach of the trust laws. Trust-busting having become so unfashionable (TIME, Feb. 23, BUSINESS), it seemed unlikely that Attorney General Sargent would execute his predecessor's threat...
...have received no benefit and that, indeed, whatever benefit they might have had, has been killed in the applause, I am sore at heart and I lament and I feel as though I had spoken altogether in vain." Scholar, he was lecturing to scholars. His words were not meat, he thought, for the hounds of the press and, with an almost pathetic earnestness, he tried to shoo them away.* First, the Dean insisted that the New Testament contained no detailed guidance either for the making of sermons or for the conduct of modern civilization: "The gospel was good news...
...Drinking was never really the curse of America. Eating was and is. I found that I ate too much when I was this side of 60. One day, I discovered that I felt unwell, very much below par. . . . Beefsteaks and roast butcher's meat figured too much in my diet, I concluded. Out they went, never to return. I'm not a vegetarian; wouldn't be one-that's going to extremes-but I don't need red meat and don't eat it. For 30 years, the only meat I've eaten...