Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most people, breakfast is at best a marginal meal. Sometimes they get up in time for breakfast, rush to the dining hall and find them serving French toast. Strange as it seems, some folks don't like French toast...
These last two items led to the invasion of the hall by Carrie Nation, an axe-wielding prohibitionist. During the noon meal on November 14, 1902, she appeared in the gallery, where visitors came to "watch the animals eat", and was immediately recognized with cheers and jeers from the floor below. She shouted, "Boys! Don't eat that infernal stuff, it's poison." When she headed down the stairs with her nickel-plated hatchets, students quickly crowded around her, offering cigarettes and cigars, which she struck to the floor with indignation. When an uproarious mob had swept her into Sanders...
Today, there are three main opinions on the food situation. The administration attitude is that the food is the best possible for the price paid, and that this best is good enough. Every student pays 58 cents a meal for 21 meals a week, and the average cost to the University of each meal served is 75 cents. The dining halls rely heavily on the fact that many do not eat every meal. Present complaints, according to the administration, are nothing more than the usual gripes...
...will decide against these charges. He will unruffle. He will foregather in crowds at the wonted time. He will relax once again at the close of day and eat a better meal...
...first 26 patients who got the treatment were relieved of pain; X rays showed that their ulcers had healed. Most were able to discard their pappy ulcer diets and between-meal snacks, but they must take banthine regularly; it is a palliative rather than a cure...