Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year's lull the Loyalist soldiers, better fed than the civilian population, got a half bottle of beer apiece, a few pieces of candy, a dinner of chick-pea soup, meat stew with potatoes, and coffee. The Rebels enjoyed two hot meals like this every day, plus a special coffee ration to hearten them through the freezing cold weather...
Another: while jazz comes to the jitterbug hot off the griddle, spirituals are dished out to concertgoers like musical cold meat. By the time they reach the concert hall most spirituals have been written down on paper, dressed up like hymn tunes, adorned with fancy piano accompaniments, "interpreted" according to the best rules of high-brow music. But in the whitewashed rural churches of the deep South, their spiritual home, spirituals are as hot as hot jazz, and often sound like...
...eight raised $225 worth of their own food this year, have $220 worth on hand, not including some hogs killed this month. They spent only $49.64 for food they did not raise. Thin, round-shouldered Mrs. Majure has on her shelves 273 quarts of vegetables, 40 quarts of meat, six glasses of jelly, 99 quarts of pickles, 18 gallons of syrup...
...Eskimos at Kepnuk, Alaska, found Dr. Rosebury, eat little besides fish and seal meat which are soft and rich in fats and proteins. They have no tooth decay. The Eskimos at Eek vary their fish and seal diet with hardtack. Many of them have decayed teeth. Dr. Rosebury became convinced that in hardtack he had found a food analogous to the coarse corn and rice. On his return to Columbia, he and his collaborators, Maxwell Karshan and Genevieve Foley, set to work feeding hardtack to more than a hundred rats, soon produced decayed teeth in many of them...
...brief remarks and ignoring the names and speeches of the actual participants, however, you failed to do justice to the undergraduate members whose show it was. If considerations of space required the cutting of the story, as I suppose, the gravy could have been spared better than the meat. The success of the symposium was owing entirely to Messrs. John D. Adams, Nathaniel Banfield, John Bonner, John Brainard, Irwin Clark, Vinton Dearing, and Eric Johnson. As you observed in your editorial, it is noteworthy that undergraduates, using tutors only as consultants, should combine their specialized talents for a common assault...