Word: pork
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard can at least be grateful that the new edifice to be constructed on De Wolfe Street between Bow and Mt. Auburn Street is not a hotel or a pork packery, but a dormitory de luxe, even De Mille...
...needs about that number of new men annually. Veterinaries are no longer "horse" but "cow-doctors." Aside from the growing pet industry and the need of veterinaries to help pet owners comply with inoculation ordinances, the growing population needs more and more men to keep milk wholesome, beef untainted, pork pure...
...after visits to the camps of treacherous Blackfeet Indians, Mr. Stevens learned that below the ridge was a secret pass which the Indians said was haunted. Mr. Stevens found the pass alone, but lost his homeward way when night fell. Munching a frozen biscuit, gnawing a strip of raw pork, Mr. Stevens paced all night, dreaming "exactly how the trains of the Great Northern would go sweeping through those mountain fastnesses in the months to come...
...Guglielmo Marconi. This wight was a butcher, too fat to fight but keenly alive to the tortures of hunger which soldiers often suffer. As the warriors of Bologna prepared one time to sally forth against the Milanese, he conceived the notion of supplying many of them with chopped beef, pork and veal, seasoned and stuffed tightly into the intestinal tubing of a pig. He showed them how they might wind this provender about their necks or waists to carry it easily; how they might tie and cut it in short lengths to share with their fellows or ration themselves...
...eating have become increasingly apparent. Overcrowding and hurrying are as unpleasant as gloom. Convenient, it must be admitted, the cafeterias remain. Their apparent variety of food, ingeniously set forth on placards, is less appealing and more monotonous after more familiar acquaintance, and in many cafeterias resolves itself into the pork-chop-and-French-friend-potatoes type of malnutrition. Irregular hours have proved injurious to health. And prices have gone up:one cafeteria, for instance, has increased the price of eggs by furnishing guaranteed "new-laid" eggs only on payment of 35 cents, instead of the quarter previously charged...