Word: ated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second Army's men made camp in afternoon showers, and by night without lights-in creek valleys, on hills, in woods. They slept on the ground, ate good food from spotless mess kits, with gusto. Every creek was a bathtub where bronzed soldiers bathed, a washtub where they laundered clothes and hung them on tree limbs to dry. In bivouac and on long halts, barbers broke out clippers and shears, went to work on soldiers' close-cropped polls. If condition, cleanliness and a kind of jeering morale were the only measures of good outfits, the Second Army needed...
...Earth. According to Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, if everyone in the U.S. ate enough of the right food, we would need to consume "twice as much green vegetables and fruits as we do now . . . 70% more tomatoes and citrus fruits, 35% more eggs, 15% more butter, 20% more milk [to say nothing of meat...
...Juilliard Foundation, then went to Paris, to go hungry. "I hope," he declared, "I shall never again have to earn an honest penny." He remained in Paris until last year, managed to live in a canary-yellow-walled apartment, had his clothes made by Couturière Lanvin, ate (and cooked) exquisite little dinners, went to bed for days at a time when he felt bored. He still calls Paris his home...
...magazines, padding circulation an average of 75,540 copies a month. For the first four months True Story's real circulation was well over the 2,000,000 guaranteed advertisers. But thereafter it fell below the guarantee and distributors really started making unsold copies disappear: in May they "ate" 57,218 copies; in December, 210,271. As late as November, True Story still solemnly reaffirmed its 2,000,000 guarantee...
...Scientists know practically nothing about the effect of food on physical efficiency. Drs. Jokl and Cluver compared the athletic performances of two sets of children: a "poor" group which ate mostly carbohydrates, a few vegetables; a "rich" group which had plenty of vegetables, meat and dairy products. When both groups were put through their paces, there was no difference in efficiency, before adolescence, between the "poor" and "rich" children; after adolescence, the poor children dropped far below the others...