Word: consumptionism
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Every class in the community will be affected by this drastic measure. Not even the Back Bay bud will escape the pinch, for one clause reads that all dances, public and private, shall stop at 10 o'clock. Gone also will be the midnight oil consumption of the mid-year...
Mr. Hoover asks for voluntary rationing in the nation's households, with a maximum allowance of three pounds a person a month. This, applied to every individual, would cut our year's consumption in two. There is no difficulty in getting along in the home on the amount the Food...
"In China another economic world cockpit is very distinctly beginning to appear. This vast, unmilitary nation, emerging into the adolescence of modern government, is the vastest storehouse of virgin economic energy still remaining on the globe's face. Her coal and iron are sufficient to last the world for 1...
Reports of a somewhat vague and inconclusive nature come from Harvard University to the effect that there is less smoking and pool-playing, and less purchasing of reading matter as well. The returns are from the Harvard Union, and they may simply be taken to indicate a decline in the...
Amid clouds of smoke the members of the Freshman class will hold an informal gathering at the Union tonight, and no 1918 man should stay away. These smokers are not held primarily to promote the consumption of tobacco and pretzels. The real reason they are held is to give the...