Word: creaming
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...that college studies be applied more to the unpleasant realities, Harry Woodburn Chase suggests that they be "devoted to really learning something about the world," a world which Mr. Chase sees in terms of the problems of contemporary life. To him such subjects as economics and biology are the cream of the curriculum. But while man's income and digestion are of major importance, the tradition of higher education has been to concentrate upon celebration...
...steaming dish of,--(Lucille, what was it they had for a vegetable). Then came the dessert, pride of the Dining Hall Staff and so temptingly put forth that we suspect that Mr. Waistcoat had made a special attempt to spur our boys to victory. It was Harlequin ice cream, and all the boys knew what that meant. Such a combination of flavors, and all so tasty...
...gives his patient a sip of barium sulphate in thick cream and a moment later has him rub his belly. This kneads the stomach and spreads the barium cream evenly into all the wrinkles, leaving their ridges bare and transparent to x-rays. The roentgenogram appears striped. Every deflected stripe indicates potentially serious trouble. Dr. Hampton now is trying to adapt the same method to showing the haustra, or tucks, of the colon which often churn up disease...
...social satirist--is in this definition: "One of the few lines left can be drawn between women who can be bought by the advertisers or not." "The Victorian Peeresses would have rather sold themselves in private," Mr. Leslie informs us, "than given their faces away with a box of cream." O tempera! O mores...
...dessert, "fresh strawberries in season are preferred above all else" with ice cream sundaes closely following. Pies without a top crust and most gelatin desserts are in disfavor as are New England fish and boiled dinners and Boston baked beans. Probably Bostonians take their meals in the dining halls just to get away from those dishes...