Word: nutriment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale of late years (her example, besides being typical, is most pertinent to the present discussion) has collected from her faithful sons an enormous endowment fund. Who were its most conspicuous donors? Were they prize scholars grown affluent as a result of the intellectual nutriment they derived from her, or merely run-of-the-mill graduates with an aptitude for trade? The latter undoubtedly. And what do they look for as a sign that their university is maintaining its prestige in the academic realm? A winning football eleven...
...unusual real, estate boom. Two large cafeterias have been built in the last two years; a third is now in process of construction. Lunch-rooms, delicatessens, and coffee-houses have sprung up with mushroom-like rapidity. The Square at luncheon hour teems with undergraduates in search of nutriment...
...probably being responsible for the spirit that has made the "Big Red" dreaded on the gridiron during the last six years. A Cornell undergraduate allows himself 30 to 25 minutes for each meal, ample time for both conversation and digestion. A Harvard cafeteria habitue, according to Roth, absorbs his nutriment in less than 15 minutes...
...London, the iguanas (giant lizards) in the zoo last week refused all nutriment. Lonely and cold, their hearts aswoon for the drowsy sweetness of the jungles of Brazil, they pined in languor, gazing with lacklustre eyes at troughs filled with such tasty morsels as corn, ants, dead flies, bread and mice. Keepers conferred. One day huge electric lights were strung along the lizard house. The iguanas awoke out of their nostalgia. They wriggled joyfully in the light of the strange and sterile suns above them; crept to the troughs, ate greedily...
...millions for what is called Home Missions. These are Christian enterprises which can be conducted better by a national organization than by local churches (as, for example, care of immigrants, Indians, "poor whites"). Part of the work is assistance of small parishes which cannot provide for their own spiritual nutriment...