Word: meals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maternity ward in April. At first sows and piglets have to be hand-fed with ground feed (chop) prepared according to a dietary formula as carefully worked out as a human baby's. At present, when the protein ingredients (chiefly soy and linseed meal) are often practically impossible to get, pig-feeding is not only an endless labor but a perpetual headache...
Harvard has been slow to get started. Reports from Bryn Mawr, Oberlin, and Wesleyan indicate that working programs are actually under way. Radcliffe has instituted a weekly light meal and eliminated desserts twice a week. But more should be possible here, where students are allotted 4200 calories per day compared to the 3500 calories established by dietitians as the daily requirement for the active man. Even the lower figure seems gluttonous beside the UNRRA's 1500 ealory minimum diet, which is still an ideal for many Europeans. Even casual reflection on these facts should prod the well-fed conscience...
Hathaway said that rooms would be rented to students by the hotels on terms suggested by the University--$65 per month rent maximum plus, preferably, a two-meal rate of $1.20 a day, breakfast and supper. One hotel has already been scratched from the list of possibilities because of food prices higher than the University maximum...
...blow on the nose with the gaff kills the seal, a few deft strokes of the knife and the pelt is sculped off. All day long the killing goes on; the ice runs red with blood. At night the crewmen trudge back to cramped quarters aboard ship for a meal of seals' flippers, a mug of black tea. Then a night's sleep, fully clothed, a breakfast of "fish and brewis" (boiled hardtack), and off on the ice again. In a good day a sealer can sculp 120 seals...
...explaining the action of the Board, Dean Hanford said that "it was felt that it would be very difficult to grant the present petition and deny requests of other groups who might, for one reason or another, desire to be excused from charges for certain meals." Furthermore, in order to maintain board rates "for all, as low as possible" it was decided that a uniform 21-meal rate for all men had to be maintained...