Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barleycorn, barleycorn, injun-meal shorts...
...Meals in the new dining hall will be contracted for on the same meal per week basis that at present governs undergraduate Houses and rates will correspond to those in the Houses and the Union. The system will not be compulsory...
Yesterday, what is now a 32-man Board of Overseers, clothed with the dignity of tradition, explored tunnels, maintenance shops, kitchens, and grounds, and ate a one-hamburger meal off an army-style tray as the start for their first two-day meeting since...
...wooden bucket. Many are rheumy-eyed from malnutrition and blink and squint constantly as they slup their food. The sound is like the suction of noisy plumbing. When they are through, they wrap their bowls and chopsticks in cotton rags and go quietly away to wait for another meal...
...Herbert Hoover rode over chokingly dusty roads past rocky farmland and dried-up streams. The coal-black natives crowded around his car. "One family here lives on four to eight annas' (8? to 16?) worth of grain a week," they told him. "We are now eating only one meal every two days...