Word: milkings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Appreciating that an abundance of good food dulls the mind, he had confined his dinner to milk and cranberry salad. The only worry now was how best to spend the four hours before the library closed at ten. This was a greater problem than it might appear, for Lucius was a great believer in preventive medicine, and by now the material was all common knowledge...
...reduction in the amount of copy would provide more space for informal pictures of typical Radcliffe occurrences which have meaning for everyone--fire drills, gym classes, library lines, cookies-and-milk at exam time, thesis writing. Hopefully, a compromise can be reached between copy and photographs, and the "Social Life" section in this year's book offers a good example of such balance...
Among the worst offenders, said Dr. Finland, is Pseudomonas aeruginosa, or the "blue-pus organism," which nowadays crops up more often and with greater virulence. Surprisingly, another problem microbe is Aerobacter aerogenes, found naturally on many food plants and in water and milk, as well as in man's digestive tract. Once rated almost harmless, it is now a killer. In sum, optimists who think it is old-fashioned nonsense to talk about fatal "blood poisoning" are wrong. There are now more deaths from septicemia than there were before the antibiotic age, said Dr. Finland...
Along with the poetry, Identity features illustrations by Kaffe Fassett (who, says the accompanying blurb, loathes milk that boils over.) Mr. Fassett's drawings, while sometimes competent, look somewhat like a cross between Aubrey Beardsley and Basil Wolverton, and add little to the total effort...
...policy of having agency directors pick their own successors with a rubber stamp approval from the board of directors is mentioned, but there follows no discussion of the possible harmful implications of this procedure. No attempt is made to evaluate the high prices of such groups as the milk and donut concession, which enjoys a virtual monopoly in the Houses and the Yard...