Word: menu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today at most U.S. colleges lion's teeth have been abandoned in favor of red meat, solid vegetables, milk, and fruit; but aside from this change in the menu, the ancient ritual goes on. And this is no less true of Harvard than any place else...
...nuances of social habit with rare authority in a society in which social flux continuously alters the symbols of prestige. But the snobbism of the right prep school, the right club, the right street in the right exurb becomes so intrusive that Terrace often reads like a gigantic menu...
...menu at Cronin's has also reflected changes at the University. Straight Yankee cookery, solid meat and potatoes, have given way to "reversion to oddities": food of an "international tinge," as Cronin somewhat equivocally puts it. When oddities are brought from the kitchen, Cronin does not always know about them. Neat tenderloins of whale steak are lovingly brought in from the ocean, but Jim waxes unfelicitous when black-listed "oysters of turkey" find their way to the platters...
SANDWICH WAR is over between transatlantic airlines trying to win economy passengers' hearts through stomachs. Lines that were getting around no-free-meal rule by serving fancy, meal-size sandwiches (TIME, April 21, May 5) agreed to serve same cold-buffet menu: meat, salad, cheese, bread, beverage...
...advantages of a nutritious single food." Some vets also disagree with the unvarying ration theory, and at least one company (Laddie Boy) is coming out with such varying dishes as whale meat, hash and eggs. But most big canners still insist that the one-dish menu is right; all have big experimental kennels where they constantly check their formulas on kennels of fine dogs. Says Pard Division Head Clarence M. Olson: "If humans could eat one balanced food such as we now feed to our pets, we'd add years to our life and life to our years...