Word: sugarless
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...Jury, with the implication that a Grand Jury investigation into the sugar market was projected, although aimed at individuals rather than at the Sugar Exchange. The agitation in political circles was maintained with remarkable persistence. Mrs. Harding expressed her sympathy; Mayor Hylan in a characteristic proclamation called for a "sugarless Monday," and a general campaign of sugar saving; monstrous petitions were threatened. Meanwhile the price of raw sugar futures has again exhibited strength, although refiners have followed varying policies in fixing the price on refined sugar. Thus far the agitation against sugar prices has not had an important effect upon...
...heedless of the aphorism that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread". In a proclamation on Saturday the Mayor declared that "the government has failed to help us. Let us help ourselves", and called "on all good citizens in their homes to observe Monday of each week as 'Sugarless Monday...
...effort and tightening in driving under fire which takes it out of one physically. The result is that after our 'spells' of 24 or 48 hours we sink into lethargic repose until the next call. The days seem all alike--except that we are served 'chocolat' instead of black, sugarless coffee on Sunday mornings--and they slip by, unsung, into the tumbled yesterdays of 'a little while ago.' I was in tremendous luck to be able to 'graft' my way into this section on the eve of its first real action--and once the action got started it seemed self...
What is the real and vital point in favor of the daylight-saving plan? The greatest argument is in its moral effect, and in its bringing home the war to each student. You read one Senior's communication about "sugarless and coal-less" days. Has the Harvard undergraduate ever economized in sugar or coal...