Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First she gets milk from one street vendor, tortillas from another. Then she sets out for the market-La Merced, San Juan, Portales or San Lucas. In the days before inflation, she wandered happily up & down the aisles, stopping to buy 1.50 pesos of meat, 16 centavos of rice, 5 centavos of garlic, 40 centavos of tomatoes. There was a lot of good-natured bargaining, and a smart haggler could stretch el gasto to include a movie...
Last week Gardner reported his discovery to the American Chemical Society, convened in Manhattan. He pointed out, significantly, that pantothenic acid is found in considerable amounts in young animal tissues and in milk (babies' food). He has not yet tried his experiment on animals or human beings, but he thinks it may be interesting when he does...
...traditional inquiry. "We get roast beef on the day of a game." Actually, the Varsity footballers get pretty much the same quality food as their undergraduate brothers, with a few alterations in the menu. For instance toast (not bread) appears on the training table. There is plenty of milk, but no coffee and only occasionally tea, while fried foods and sweets are also avoided...
...along without a baby sitter they have arranged their schedules with their morning and afternoon classes falling on alternate days. The family gets reunited nightly over textbooks, a warm bottle of milk for Armin Jr., and black coffee later on for his parents...
...stout prop for a winning ball team. Rickey and his men scouted Robinson until they knew everything about him but what he dreamed at night. Jackie scored well on all counts. He did not smoke (his mother had asthma and cigaret fumes bothered her); he drank a quart of milk a day and didn't touch liquor; he rarely swore; he had a service record (as Army lieutenant in the 27th Cavalry) and two years of college (at U.C.L.A.). He had intelligence, patience and willingness. He was aware of the handicaps his race encounters, but he showed...