Word: meal
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...Absence. If a man missed any meal, he would save, in tickets, a part of the cost of that meal...
...chose the more expensive meats, and chose them more often than they are now furnished, his expenses would of course be greater than at present. If. however, he did not care for meat at every meal, he might have the more expensive meats when he did take meat, and yet save...
From figures gathered by the House Committee this fall it appears that up to the end of the football season the average number of people at a meal was 99. This average in the first two weeks of December dropped to 70, and the total number served per week dropped from an average of 2085 to 1475. There have been 8 regular waiters all the fall, and they have found no difficulty in looking after all who came. When the proportion of people per meal suddenly dropped from 100 to 70, the Committee decided to cut down the number...
Order slips have been issued, on which a list of the articles of food and their prices is printed. The doctor in charge of a case indicates on a slip what he wishes his patient to have for each meal, and the slip so marked and signed by the doctor's name is sent in to Randall Hall. The prices, which are somewhat higher than those charged for food in the regular dining room of Randall, cover the cost of sending the meals from the kitchen to college rooms...
...special object of the Lord's Supper was social religion, to bind Christ's followers together. It was grafted on the Passover and, like it, was a family meal. All the names used for it, the Supper the Eucharist or thanksgiving (like Grace after meat) the Greek and Latin names, Synaxis and Collecta, and even Mass (which is Missus, the name for a course at a meal, preserved in our word Mess) show its social character: and this is the point of St. Paul's teaching about it in I Cor. XI, and also in the document called the Didache...