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...most common order according to Richard Fellows '41, director of the Food sandwich. The most complicated order ever received is a sandwich which consisted of lettuce, tomato, bacon, peanut butter and mustard. The "meandering meatball" service was established by the Student Council in order to satisfy the wants of the night-owls who are not satisfied by the dining hall food...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MEANDERING MEAT-BALL" SERVICE IN SECOND YEAR | 11/15/1940 | See Source »

Slapstick he provided liberally-Chaplin the soldier of World War I firing an anti-aircraft gun in all heavenly and earthly directions; Chaplin the dictator who takes a huge mouthful of English mustard; Jack Oakie, the rival dictator, mugging and talking tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Nov. 4, 1940 | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Chemistry's most spectacular contribution to World War I, apparently not yet used in World War II-chlorine, phosgene, diphosgene, chlorpicrin, diphenylchlorarsine, mustard-were all discovered in peace time by non-military scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemistry in Warfare | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...Miss Vinson is too much the intellectual type. Ann Sheridan soon demonstrates that the way to Mr. Cagney's heart is to heave a plate of sandwiches at him so that he can duck, catch one and observe that it needs more mustard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Adventures of a Biologist. Famed problem child of British scientists, prolific science writer, expert on poison gas, big, bristly-tempered, 47-year-old Biologist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane believes that life without adventure is "like beef without mustard." But his idea of adventure is not safaris; it is exploring the ultramicroscopic world, the stratosphere, the nature rather than the surface of the earth. Besides essays on the biologist in relation to everything from town-planning to death, Biologist Haldane speculates on the effect of weather on history, on the possibility of a new ice age, on the chances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventuring | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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