Word: veal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reduced one third or one half, and that some kind of hot meat be substituted, for the benefit of those students who dislike fish. A similar change might be made on other days. Heretofore we have been accustomed to partake of mutton once a week, and have had veal quite a number of times. Now some persons dislike mutton exceedingly, and a great many consider a mouthful of veal hardly preferable to a dose of castor-oil. When the dinner, then, is composed of one of these meats, they have but two alternatives, - to eat what is set before them...
...brow. We should then be spared the blunders and failures of the young orator in his eager and oft-times futile efforts for success; that crude-ness which, in the young orator as in the budding writer, may be called, by a metaphor as true as it is homely, "veal." But this is one of the things impossible. The little bird, seeing its parent flying from bough to bough, thinks it can do the same. Having found itself strong enough for the slight use of its limbs required within the narrow bounds of the nest, it confidently makes trial...