Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repudiating the ideals for which they fought in 1914. Their new union provides that they do their own building, direct their own employment agencies, operate their own laundries, and conduct their own dining halls. For three and a half cents they get a meal consisting of a bowl of potato soup and a piece of coarse bread. Twice a week meat is served. Yet so far the "kick register" contains as its most frequent comment "Genug und Gut", which compares favorably with reports of dining hall suggestion boxes in American universities...
...would be insufferable in Paris. The same feeling is expressed as appeared in the Parisian dailies after the "Battle of the Century" last July: "America may have Dempsey, but remember Frenchmen, we have Verdun!" France and the Olympic question appear very much like a fussy old woman with a potato too hot for her fingers, which pride will not let her lay down. The unfortunate part of it all is that evidences of fussy penny-wise pettiness like this, and isolated cases of what we call "poor sportsmanship", lose more friends for France in this country, than all the invocations...
...question. Unfortunately, authorities will disagree as to what should be thus disposed of. Some would eliminate all government, others, all taxes; down in New Jersey they are trying to limit the limitations imposed by the nineteenth amendment. Still others confine their efforts to the suppression of lumps in mashed potato and the "relentless elimination of cores from baked apples...
...clock in the Stadium. Teams from ten New England cities will bring 150 entrants in the meet, which is being held under the auspices of the Y. W. C. A. Among the events which are on the schedule are the 75-yard dash, shot-put, high-jump, hurdles, potato races and others...
...winners in the events were as follows: Musical Stalls, F. C. Packard 1G; Obstacle Raco, L. F. Brigham '24; Potato Race, G. M. Ramsey ocC.; A relay race and a mounted wrestling event also took place...