Word: foods
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...next year. During the past College year, the fiscal results of this investment by the Corporation have been fairly satisfactory. Though the profits were not large enough to add anything to the sinking fund, it was possible to pay the interest on the debt. Had not the cost of food-stuffs greatly increased, it is probable that the annual addition to the sinking fund could have been made...
...price of board in the Union is higher than anywhere else in Cambridge, the food is not unusually good, and yet there was a deficit for the past half-year...
Other restaurants run as business enterprises offer good food for the same price as the Union, although they have to pay rent and lack many of the advantages which should make the Union dining room profitable. Something ought to be done to prevent this waste. It is possible that allowing men to "sign on" for the week at slightly reduced rates would increase the business sufficiently to prevent running the restaurant at a loss. However this may be, it is certain that at the present rates there should be no deficit, and it will be the duty...
...ship. So they cached most of their goods and proceeded along the edge of the ice to their hut, where they found a note, saying where the "Nimrod" would shelter, and that it would leave on February 26. That night they spent in torment. There was very little food, and no oil to burn; they had left their blankets on the ice and it was too cold to sleep; and they believed that the ship had moved her position or possibly had gone north and left them. But the next morning they sighted her, and by 11 o'clock were...
...this afternoon is an occasion of unusual interest. On October 29, 1908, he and his party of three left the Antarctic coast for the unknown interior, and after an advance which brought them within 111 miles of the pole, they were forced to turn back, having nearly exhausted the food supply and reached the limit of their endurance. When the coast was nearly reached with all of the party more or less incapacitated, one of the men was overcome with sickness. He was left with a companion, while Lieutenant Shackleton and the fourth member of the party hurried...