Word: milk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...town that night." At Harvard Mrs. Foster was made stocking-mender at a salary of pound 12. Students were allowed a pound of meat and a pint of beer at dinner, and a half-pint of beer at night. For supper they could choose between a half-pint of milk and a biscuit. They were given clean table-cloths twice a week, and finally could indulge in the luxury of plates. Pudding was a delicacy three times a week...
...which no stint was applied was the cider, a beverage then fast supplanting the small beer of the Colonial days. This was brought to the men in pewter cans, which were passed from mouth to mouth, and when emptied were again replenished. For supper there was a bowl of milk and a size of bread. The hungry Oliver who wished for more was forced to order, or, as the phrase went, "size it" from the kitchen. - [From McMaster's History of the United States...
...When have you it then written?" Meier - "Sunday morning at the breakfast - or, rather directly after. Professor - "I see here but no work. Will you your-self convince? The sheet is empty!" Meier - "Thunderweather then have I out of mistake instead of in the ink-glass in the milk-glass dipped...
...cats in that age?" Class - "Seven and one-half feet." Professor - "Yes, this tooth proves that some were over twenty feet in length. What else may we learn from this?" Class - "That's as far as the lesson went." Professor - "Well, it also shows that cats could once drink milk. Now, man sometimes drinks milk. Therefore man descended from a cat. You will, without review, be examined tomorrow morning for one hour on the last 4,000 pages of your text-book." - [Orient...
...latest method of making an oyster stew is to drive a couple of small oysters with rubber boots on through a pan of diluted milk. One of the boarding-houses in town has taken out a patent. The boys say that the stew is good and don't taste badly of the rubber...