Word: flour
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...drunkenness of today. One celebrated physician has said that he could cure more diseases by prescribing total abstinence for one year than by ordinary practice for one hundred years. It is also well known that Baron Liebig said that there is as much nourishment in the quantity of flour that would lie on the point of a table knife as there is in eight pints of beer...
...Norman-French-to indicate the thing consumed. In the same way while the names of the various grains continue Saxon as well as the product of the inferier kinds when ground, as oatmeal, barleymeal, ryemeal, yet that which was used by the higher classes gets a foreign name-flour. Thus we find a principle of caste established in our language by the mere necessities of the case. To bury remains Saxon, because everybody must at last be put in the earth, but as only the rich and noble could afford any pomp in that sad office we get the word...
There are 850 quarts of milk used every day at Memorial, and about 500 pounds of beef are bought whenever they have beef for dinner. Two barrels of flour are consumed in a day. All victuals left over are sold early in the morning to the poor at the rate of ten cents a basket...