Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other obvious source of infection, that of an infected food-handler in the Central Kitchens, seemed also disproved, when it was ascertained that two of the men answering the letter had eaten lunch at a club on Wednesday, and held that meal responsible for their illness. Also, among the sufferers who reported yesterday were several from the Union and one man who lives outside the University dormitories, and consequently ate at none of the Halls...
Seven years ago Wagons-Lits bought Thomas Cook & Son with the result that on the Orient Express one can now escape the necessity of paying for things in seven kinds of money. Buying ticket and meal coupons or books in Paris at Wagons-Lits-Cook's opposite the Madeleine, you hop a taxi to the smoky Gare du Nord, step aboard the Simplon Orient at 5:53 p. m.. wake up next morning just as you are diving under the Alps through the famed Simplon Tunnel and breakfast as you swish by the Italian lakes and Stresa...
...revelation of a marathoner's methods. Last winter Harvard scientists who had often noticed him trotting around suburban Boston, secured Runner Kelley's permission to use him for metabolism tests. Before the race, they gave him glucose pills, each said to be the equivalent of a full meal, to eat when he grew tired. Said Runner Kelley: "I swallowed 15 glucose pills between Framingham and Newton. ... I think that's what upset my stomach...
...method of Drs. William Charles D. Maile and K. J. L. Scott utilizes the shadow effect of one to two ounces of bismuth swallowed with a test meal. That small amount of bismuth does not ascertainably retard digestion, they discovered, after they set to work on three doctors and their wives, one dentist and one medical student. The most surprising fact that Drs. Maile and Scott discovered was that milk is one of the most tedious foods to digest. A pint of rich raw milk takes 6½ hours to get out of the stomach. A pint of boiled milk...
...original report, which they published in the Lancet, Drs. Maile & Scott stated that it requires six hours to digest a mixed meal of eggs, toast, cream and coffee. A supper of cold pheasant, potatoes, chutney, pudding, jelly, beer and coffee stayed in the stomach about 47 hours. But 3½to 4 hours usually suffice to digest the ordinary meal. A headache, an emotional upset or a high ratio of fatty foods delay digestion...