Word: ated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They divided the last sandwiches; Mrs. Beanlands and Shap trudged off through the desert to find help; Jimmy sat and waited. They never came back. After several days Jimmy nearly despaired. Then clouds of migratory grasshoppers dropped from the sky. He cooked and ate them, kept life going till a cruising Chinese pilot saw his beacon. Author Garnett ends his story thus: "When they fell in waterless desert places they died; where they passed they left desert ; they sprouted wings and flew. Their seed sprang again in wingless armies from the earth. They had no reason and little that might...
...Brown explained: "About a year ago rabbits began coming in from everywhere, thousands of them, by parcel post, truck and express. I couldn't tell if they were the offspring of my rabbits or not, but the people had my contracts, and I had to take them. They ate me out of house & home, and wouldn't go when I turned them loose. I hauled them to St. Louis and sold them for 10? apiece, or gave them away to motorists. Nearly all these claims against me are for rabbits sent me by contract customers, as high...
...English-Aesop fable delivered during the War by an English clergyman spouting to the Catholic Actors Guild. But the reverend gentleman said the two that hopped into the cream were mice, not frogs. A frog wouldn't die in cream, would he or she? Unless she or he ate till he or she sank? A mouse would drown...
...people the observance of Better Homes Week," said President Hoover last week. "Everything that can be done to make home life pleasanter is a distinct contribution . . . to the highest spiritual values of life." As their contribution to Better Homes Week the President & Mrs. Hoover with six friends ate a meal (split pea soup, meat & rice loaf; baked potatoes, cabbage, carrot salad, lemon bread pudding) that cost 23.6¢ a plate, cooked and served by Girl Scouts at their Little House in Washington...
...committee. Last week U. S. Steel stockholders met in Hoboken at the grey, concrete, boxlike building of Hudson Trust Co., occupying the same stockholders'-meeting room used by International Harvester, International Mercantile Marine and many another great industry incorporated under New Jersey's convenient laws. The Steelmen ate a luncheon provided by the Lackawanna railroad, and ratified a plan submitted by Mr. Taylor providing for compulsory retirement of all Steel's executives at a certain age. Chairman Taylor, a deeply religious man (like President Hoover he is a Quaker), chose as this age the Bible...