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- adjective Without
wheat .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Certain days of the week were designated as "wheatless" or "meatless" when voluntary demi-fasts were to be observed, the nonobservance of which spelled social ostracism.
Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. Charles Seymour 1924
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1918 - President Hoover calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" days for war effort
magic-city-news.com 2009
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“The people have been requested to have heatless days, meatless days, wheatless days,” Wayne Wheeler said in a letter to President Wilson.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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“The people have been requested to have heatless days, meatless days, wheatless days,” Wayne Wheeler said in a letter to President Wilson.
LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010
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Wednesday, she is going home with S. to make wheatless cupcakes for A.
readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2005
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In 1918, the harvest was so bad that the U.S. government had to declare "wheatless days," on which no wheat products could be sold.
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"Wouldn't it be dreadful if we had loveless days, Daddy, as well as meatless ones and wheatless?"
The Tin Soldier Temple Bailey
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"We had visions of watery soup and wheatless bread for the rest of the war," observed Jack.
Air Service Boys in the Big Battle Or, Silencing the Big Guns Charles Amory Beach
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Patriotic bakers and housewives all over the country have been trying to produce a wheatless loaf which is light, palatable, and sufficiently durable to stand transportation.
Food Guide for War Service at Home Prepared under the direction of the United States Food Administration in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, with a preface by Herbert Hoover Florence Powdermaker 1930
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We have had wheatless days, and meatless days, let us have feetless days; keep your feet on the floor, not on your desk.
Pine Needles, 1921. No Author 1921
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