Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this book, vigorous, witty Bergen Evans, youthful professor of English at Northwestern University, swoops down on many of the world's best-beloved caterpillars' nests. His aim is, of course, to exterminate them. Sample "vulgar errors": >Thunder sours milk (the sultry weather is really responsible...
...impossible, and it should attempt to meet the inevitable rushes with improvements in efficiency even beyond the considerable gains made since the opening of the term. According to the Crimson survey, the lines slow down at a number of points, chief among these being at the coffee and milk section of the counter. More help to keep the coffee and milk pouring faster is the answer here. Other pauses in the usually fast-moving lines occur when students have to help themselves to items such as butter and when refills of food trays don't arrive promptly from the kitchen...
...France and Belgium, which had been the largest buyers. But the millions of pounds normally sent overseas would ease the U.S. situation hardly at all. Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson predicted that the shortage might be worse next spring. The Price Decontrol Board refused to restore ceilings on milk, butter, cheese, and other dairy products -as it had on meats...
...band tramped down the Salarian Way, along which Romans had once marched to capture the Sabine women and found ancient Rome, the grim thump of drums woke Adolfo Boscaini. Farmer Boscaini kept 200 milk cows, 600 sheep on 220 hectares (about 490 acres). His barns were freshly painted. So was his tractor, ready for autumn ploughing. His cowsheds smelt only of sour-sweet silage...
Moreover, Minnie worked seven days a week, was on call 24 hours a day keeping the company's Bayonne, NJ. laboratory free of rats. And $3.20 a month was enough to buy salmon and milk for Minnie and her five kittens...