Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the middle of February when the little coffee lounge on the main floor of Widener opened for business, 3000 graduate students and faculty members have left their alcoves in the stacks to got coffee, team, and cookies. So far only the pale graduate student has defied the tea and lemon convention...
...week, Oregon's Wayne Morse was the U.S. Senate's new alltime talk champion: he had filibustered for 22 hours and 26 minutes without leaving the Senate floor.* His intake: two cups of bouillon, two glasses of orange juice, a few sips of water, five cups of tea, two cups of coffee, a few crackers, part of a chocolate bar. His output: upwards of 100,000 words on subjects ranging from offshore oil (the matter under debate) to horseback riding, to baloney (the edible kind). When his self-imposed ordeal was over, the pink rose in the lapel...
Students and faculty of the Divinity School yesterday honored Willard K. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, who is retiring at the end of this year. Dean and Mrs. Sperry were hosts at a tea in the Farrar Room when the announcement was made of plans for a presentation of a portrait of Sperry...
...Tea. Last week Tara Singh and Bibi journeyed to a town near the Pakistan border to meet him. Bibi was afraid, for despite her careful Moslem upbringing, she had absorbed some Sikh prejudices. "If I go to a Moslem household," she cried, "I shall have to bear the offensive smell of tobacco and eat beef!" But Tara Singh loaded her with presents and new clothes and reminded her of her duty...
When Fateh Ali arrived, he embraced Tara Singh with tears in his eyes. Then they went to a restaurant to celebrate the occasion with a cup of tea. At the sight of a Sikh and a Moslem sitting down together, a murmuring crowd began to gather outside, and the story of Bibi and her foster father spread quickly among the Hindu villagers...