Word: lunched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dinner table education has long been considered one of the ideals of Harvard learning. What about lunch-table education...
...morning wisdom of their instructors. But at lunchtime, when they have just quit classes, they may remember some small parts of the lectures. They may even want to discuss them. Unless the classmates live in the same house, their aim is frustrated; there is no inter-House at lunch...
...pleasant fact that the University plans all meals two weeks in advance, down to the very last cabbage leaf. So why don't the dining halls list the breakfast menu along with the lunch and dinner of the day before, and post both outside the dining hall? With the menu outside, undergraduates heading for bed at outrageous hours may make a reasoned decision and be sure whether or not they want to rise for breakfast...
There were other good wishes for the greatest Briton of his time. Telegrams, letters and parcels poured in on him all day. Denmark's King Frederik and Queen Ingrid toasted him at a lunch in the Danish embassy, while in the streets outside a huge crowd greeted him with shouts of "Good old Winnie!" "His life," said London's Evening Standard, "is the most important individual strand in the weave of the 20th Century...
Marble-fronted, white and gleaming, the world's largest Woolworth store opened on Houston's bustling Main Street. It cost $8,000,000, is completely air-conditioned, seats 150 at its lunch counter. On opening day, 40,000 Houstonians gawked at the big "History of Texas" mural between the front doors, rode up & down the escalators, kept cash registers ringing. Although most middle-aged people still think of Woolworth's as a "Five and Dime," the Houston store last week showed how great the change has been behind the old familiar red front. There were canaries...