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Word: soups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second-string center is "Soup" Gardiner, younger brother of big Tom Gardiner, who was A team tackle in 1941. Soup, whose real name is Sylvester, worked himself up from the ranks and finally earned a once-over from Harlow. From then on he was made, and has been right up on top ever since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVENTEEN '46 GRIDDERS GREET COACH LAMAR | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...Brookdale one can buy 1? and 5? meals (soup, bread, beans, vegetable, dessert, coffee). A pastel booklet explains: "This service is not a charity but a business transaction which Clinton's regards as its special privilege." It is a business transaction, because Clinton has made money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Clinton's Big Job | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...then sat up and had a bowl of soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Forty Hours on Makin | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...Heard a waitress crack, when a soldier complained of cold soup: "No wonder. It's been waiting for you for two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Doughboys Abroad | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...breakfast of herb tea and a Melba-size slice of dry bread; luncheon would be weeds from the garden, cooked in a few drops of oil, if one were lucky enough to get oil, and another thin piece of dry bread; and finally, dinner would be vegetable soup, thickened with a teaspoonful of wheat flour, and for dessert a fig or a couple of olives. Dogs, cats, even rats are the only meats to be found; three pounds of donkey meat, which tastes like kitchen soap, costs about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Many Lidices | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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