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Word: staffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adams House members honored Mrs. Anna Reardon, a member of the dining hall staff for 14 years, with a gift check for $100, a corsage, and a pocketbook, at the evening meal yesterday. Housemaster David Mason Little '19 made the presentation in behalf of the students and resident faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Men Fete Dining Hall 'Ma' | 5/22/1948 | See Source »

Known to Gold Coasters since 1934 as "Ma," Mrs. Reardon will retire at the end of the term in June. She is currently assistant captain of the dining hall staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Men Fete Dining Hall 'Ma' | 5/22/1948 | See Source »

...same time Bingham had no comment on a possible successor to Chief Boston, who resigned his position of Jayvee football coach last week. "Art Valpey has complete charge of his staff, and he has as yet given me no recommendation...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Minor Jayvees Face Economy Axe; Grid Rules Body Throws in Towel | 5/22/1948 | See Source »

...pajamas, boots and a white panama he had stolen from a Greek plumber, Farran escaped, drifted on a caique for nine days until a British destroyer picked him up. He got back to the Western desert in time for El Alamein. One day he drove a brigadier in a staff car when the car suddenly skidded and turned over. The brigadier was killed. Said Farran, who was unscathed: "I contemplated suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Death & the Captain | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...more comfortable he finds it. The 19th Century gardener grew 30 kinds of apples in his orchard, ranging in taste from bitter to sweet. Today, "the large red apple" caters to the public love of all that is "sweet, smooth, and outwardly appealing." Bread, which was once the crusty staff of life, is now "half-masticated . . . before reaching the mouth," and caters to the taste which prefers fruit juice to fruit, chopped meat to a cut off the joint, mashed potato, ice cream, and a host of packaged powders which water turns into infinite varieties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Shape of Things | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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