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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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He has already developed a taste for a Boston specialty, New England clam chowder, but his favorite dishes are still pot-au-feu and kidneys cooked with Chablis. "You see," says Madame Munch, "he has a modest taste." He likes a good nip of Scotch, is amazed that he has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Once a year, however, as long as he keeps the Boston conductorship, Munch expects to go back where they know about such things. His two-year contract (with an optional third) allows him plenty of free time in the summers, and he and Madame Munch plan to spend their vacations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

There are many things to draw him there. He is an enthusiastic amateur Egyptologist; his 14-room apartment near the Bois de Boulogne is cluttered with Egyptian statuettes and old Dutch etchings. He also likes to take an occasional lesson in "harmonious coordination of mind and body" at Madame Codreano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

One day in 1906 President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton University made what he called a "heretical" proposal to bis trustees: abolish the campus eating clubs which for a quarter of a century had flourished proudly along Prospect Avenue. They were contrary to the "democratic spirit," said Wilson; they had become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Come One, Come All | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The row that followed was long and bitter ("Must a gentleman eat with a mucker?" cried the clubmen). In the end, Ivy, Cap and Gown, and the rest of the clubs continued to flourish for the benefit of juniors and seniors who as sophomores had been lucky enough to get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Come One, Come All | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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