... food rationing named after Herbert Hoover, the program's administrator. Hooverizers abstained from certain foods on one or two days of the week; for example, wheatless Mondays and porkless Thursdays and Saturdays.

And then all hundred and one of us trooped across the grass and onto the platform and got our diplomas from Mr. Halvorson, the superintendent of schools, and he said my name into the microphone―Tollefson, John Olaf―and there is was, the terrible secret of my middle name, revealed, and I slunk back to my seat and people whispered, 'Hey, Ole.'

[…]but the innating matter works not upon the dull matter, as upon a new material, for the innate matter is mixt with the dull part of matter[…]

My cat looks underweight, so I'll fatten him up with higher-calorie cat food.