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Word: breakfast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best ways to make the dining halls attractive is to have the breakfast hour as long as possible. The House masters have been wise in using their influence to have breakfast extend over a much longer period than is the case at the Freshman Halls and their decision to make the service rather informal at this time would seem to make this possible without greatly increasing the cost. Breakfast will undeniably be the most convenient meal to take in the House and every effort should be made to make the meal as attractive as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINING HALL HOURS | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

...fact that breakfast is at present the least attended meal in the Freshman Dormitories indicates that an extension of this hour is very desirable. The rapid cafeteria-like service promised by the proposed buffet system should also increase the popularity of the House move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINING HALL HOURS | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

...most interesting features of the flat $8.50 charge entitling. House members to the first fourteen meals they eat per week is the fact that it places a premium upon eating breakfast away from the House. The mathematics are complicated but they run something as follows. In the first place is will be instructive to consider the case of the man who goes ahead and eats the first fourteen meals in any week. We find him on Friday noon having eaten four dinners, five breakfasts, and five lunches. At the quoted per meal price of .80, .30, and .60 respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Statistican Finds the More You Eat the Less You Pay Under New Dining Scheme--Stay Home, Save Money | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

...even more inconvenienced by having to eat in the Square for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday breakfast, but he is a true scientist and 10, on Saturday night he is rewarded, for his six lunches, six dinners and two breakfasts add up to $9.00. At last he has beaten the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Statistican Finds the More You Eat the Less You Pay Under New Dining Scheme--Stay Home, Save Money | 11/26/1929 | See Source »

...wife, June, at a revival and married her because she was a Christian and lived as God wanted her to. We said grace at each meal. At breakfast one morning the idea occurred to me to kill her for fear she might stray from the Christian life. This plan was strengthened by the fact that I soon lost my job and was unable to care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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