Word: toasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Horrors of Manpower Shortage. At Harvard University, authorities announced that unless more students volunteered to serve as waiters in the dining halls the usual midmorning snacks of chocolate milk and toast must be abandoned...
...Harvard University, authorities announced that unless more students volunteered to serve as waiters in the dining halls the usual mid-morning snacks of chocolate milk and toast must be abandoned. --"Miscellany," Time, November...
...Brazil's uneasy pro-Brazilian neutrality, her rotund, sparse-haired, convivial Chief of Staff, General Pedro Aurelio de Goes Monteiro, was popularly supposed to be hedging Brazil's bets, on the German side. He openly admired the German army and once was reported to have drunk a toast to its honor and glory. In April 1940 he received the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle, for "valued services by Brazil to Germany." If the Axis had won before the U.S. became involved, Brazilian Patriot Goes Monteiro would have been in a position to make...
Life is Crude. There is nothing much to do except to work hard all day, then go to bed. Up at five o'clock, the troops eat a breakfast which may consist of French toast, Karo syrup, sausages and coffee. The world's loveliest sunrise is golden and purple and leaden. As soon as light appears ("back over there where home is") a faint flush of warmth pushes back the cool of night. By eight o'clock it is hot and sticky. Standard dress is a pair of khaki shorts, nothing more. The soldiers, sailors and marines...
Cold statistics (the seating capacity of the dining halls is about sixty-five percent of the number expected to be using them) make it plain that the traditional 8:29 1/2 morning rush for toast and coffee has gone the way of many another pre-war luxury...