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Quaffing a brew on the 5:48 out of Stamford last night, a Gov-major became interested in his neighbor, a tidy character who, between swallows of a rye-and-soda, was drawing invert-ted U-curves on a sheet of paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Secrets Bared When Grade Curve Uncorks Brew | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...beer drinker would have thought nothing of this had not the rye-and-soda man pencilled an "A" at one end of the curve and an "E" at the other. At the high point he put "C" and elsewhere symbols ranging from A minus to D minus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Secrets Bared When Grade Curve Uncorks Brew | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

There are, of course, bourbon whiskey and rye whiskey. There is, I am credibly informed, Irish whiskey. And, above all, there is-for the comfort of men of good will within and without the British Empire-Scotch whisky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...TIME yields to no one (certainly not to Author Arlen) in its admiration for Scotch but likes bourbon and rye too; and life is too short to spell whiskey two ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Corn was king, with 3.3 billion bushels (against a 2.6 billion average). Wheat hit 1.16 billion bushels, 37% above average. The nation's farmers also set new highs in rice, soybeans, cherries, potatoes, tobacco, peaches, pears, plums and truck crops. Only in cotton and rye was the yield down by wide margins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Again, Plenty | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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