Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting out of jail. The Vagabond was not feeling the pangs of hunger. That would not come for hours, when he could lay off for supper. On he must read through the tale of other peoples' struggles and sufferings and defeats. At least one could get a decent meal and still work in Widener--they had no stopped that yet. And after all, he was imprisoned voluntarily--no one compelled him to come to Harvard in the first place or to slave and moil and toil and strain his eyes in a library hemmed in by windows plated with steel...
...Okla. After earning $1,000,000 in seven years in insurance, Arnett retired, took up secret studies of archaeology, eugenics, Greek philosophy, medicine, law, agriculture, drainage, geology, manufacturing, commerce, anthropology. He bought 60,000 books, hired 17 assistants. For a time he worked 100 hours, ate only one large meal, read at least seven books each week. He married twice on Christmas Day. He left one invention, the gourdcumber, "a cucumber as drought-resistant as the Spanish gourd"; and many lengthy treatises, the last of which was The New Deal vs. The New World. His ambition, unfulfilled at death...
...Vagabond finished his meal and strolled back to the Club Car. He loved to sit out on the observation platform and watch the world recede into the distance at the rate of sixty miles an hour. It gave him a feeling of going places, a thrill that comes from the sense of speed and the feeling that one is utterly helpless to do anything about it save be carried along. He let himself down into the little camp chair on the platform, pulled his coat tightly around his knees to keep off the chill gusts of wind, and relaxed...
...most persistent report, served gratuitously with many a meal in House dining halls. Was to the effect that a "secret clause," "another paper" had been agreed to at the same time whereby the University ceded the union a preferential shop...
...conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury after the Oxford Conference last summer, with the stipulation that it did not set a precedent. To many an Anglican and High Episcopalian, "open communion" is fraught with danger. To them this celebration is no mere Lord's Supper or fellowship meal; it is a sacrificial act performed by a priest of the historic ministry, or even (depending on their inclinations toward Catholicism) a repetition of the sacrifice of Christ upon the Cross...