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Word: snack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snack of Glass. When "Queen" Caroline met Lord Byron, even the robustest Whig was rocked by the resulting drama. Caroline dressed up as Poet Byron's page boy in a silver-laced jacket and scarlet pantaloons, bit large pieces out of her wine glass when she saw him talking to another woman. But Melbourne stood staunchly by his Fairy Queen, watching her glittering hysteria degenerate into madness. She died in 1828, leaving him the father of a half-witted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whigs in Clover | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...brave man, and so he decided to do something about it. "The attire being worn in public by some American women is not in good taste," he proclaimed. Henceforth, "women dressed improperly" would not be permitted to enter U.S. military installations in his area, including PXs, commissaries, theaters, snack bars and service clubs. Specifically taboo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Proper Look | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...went into training about a month ago. Though he hated to take time off from his stamp collecting and reading ("everything from match covers to encyclopedias," says his mother), he kept at his workouts. He pored over lists prepared by his teachers. At night, as he ate his bedtime snack, his mother would fire words at him while he struggled sleepily to spell them. The long preparation eventually paid off: last week Bill landed in Washington, D.C. for the finals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Think Before You Spell | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...party is never closed to members of other brotherhoods. The frat offers its brethren intramural sports, a bar to drink away the academic difference between themselves and the Middlebury women, and a dining hall with a separate chef to provide three meals a day and a ten o'clock snack at night. A student can have breakfast in his frat until ten thirty; he can't get into College breakfast after...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Middlebury College: Myth of Coeducation | 5/21/1954 | See Source »

...Student Union is a pre-fabricated building that houses student organization's meeting rooms and offices, mail boxes, a supply store, a lounge, the College print shop, and a soda and hamburg bar. But the students who snack at the latter are more likely to be stag than dating...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Middlebury College: Myth of Coeducation | 5/21/1954 | See Source »

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