Word: food
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...garrisons. He made his way to Khartoum, which he proceeded to put in a state of defence. He had several little steamers on the river. These were made into floating batteries. Inside the fortifications he had 40,000 civilians and 10,000 soldiers. By repeated forays he accumulated enough food to last eleven months. He had an arsenal in which arms and ammunition were manufactured. When his money gave out he issued paper money pledging the credit of the Khedive and of England. So much confidence was felt in him that the paper was never at a discount...
Captain Thorney yesterday morning took fourteen of the leading candidates to a private training table at the New Haven House. The object of this is to give the men most likely to play in the Princeton game a change of food...
During the warm weather those who take their meals at Memorial Hall are likely at times to get food which is not entirely palatable to them. I hope any such will not fail to notify me by complaints put in the box for that purpose in the hall. I do not very often give personal answers to the complaints but invariably look into the merits of all communications addressed to me. I should like also to remind everybody that the best way to obtain better food, is to send back that which is objectionable, with a brief note...
...discomforts which go with it. If the sickness is contagious, these are aggravated almost beyond the limit of patient endurance. To the sick man many comforts are necessary which the same man in perfect health is able and contented to do without. Foremost of these is palatable and wholesome food; yet the long distance which food must be carried is generally enough to deprive it of any quality which might tempt the appetite. The solitude which is the necessary accompaniment of a contagious disease is also far from aiding a speedy convalescence. In a suitable infirmary these unpleasant and harmful...
...urged that there were at least 1200 men in Cambridge who, if not ill enough to be taken to a hospital, have no place other than their rooms to which they may go, and must depend on food brought to them from a distance. An infirmary would provide such men with suitable quarters and, by means of a diet kitchen, with suitable food...