Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of Dudley Hall may use the cafeteria, taking advantage of what Hansbury terms "cheaper meals and better quality than can be obtained anywhere else." The menu includes a special hot plate at 40 cents, soup, sandwiches, milk, and ice cream or pie, all of which is prepared at Adams House and then taken by truck to the cafeteria...
...that they had run out of ideas; nothing so untechnical as that. The fact is that some students--and any Technite will swear they were from Harvard--took advantage of the uproar to perpetrate a nefarious crime, namely the theft of a plate from the bridge which bears the solemn designation "Harvard Bridge...
From a letter in the Times of London from one William Pringle: "I am a Scotsman approaching 80 years of age and have been accustomed to have a plate of porridge daily for breakfast, and to this I attribute my good health. This morning I visited nearly a dozen shops in quest of some oatmeal, but failed to procure...
This difference allows astronomers to photograph the brighter parts of the sun's atmosphere with a "spectroheliograph," a prism spectroscope which casts sunlight of only one color on a photographic plate. The light from the solar atmosphere, glowing in that color, shows in the picture. Most of the dazzling light from the surface, being of other colors, is excluded by the spectroscope...
...second-guessed too often from the front office. He got philosophical about it: "God gets you up in the morning in good health and guides you safely through traffic to the ballpark. When your turn comes, He takes you by the hand and leads you up to the plate. Then He taps your shoulder. 'Son,' He says, 'you take it from here'-and drops you flat on your puss." When the lowly Philadelphia Phillies fired him three years ago, the greying boy wonder shuffled off to Buffalo to manage the minor-league Bison team...