Word: cod
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...young calves. Modern ranch-bred silver foxes are fed cow's milk, with cream added for fat content when first weaned. Soon afterward they get eggs, liver, tripe or heart. Adult foxes are permitted to gobble whole meat, shredded wheat, fish, orange juice, tomato juice, turnips, spinach, porridge, cod-liver oil and yeast...
When the average citizen hears Chicago mentioned, a somewhat hazy compound of stockyard smells, machine guns, stool pigeons for King George, and weird government wells up in his subconscious mind. When the same a. c. hears Boston, the subconscious first offers cod, tentatively; then follows up with culture, Concord, and the Tea Party, and closes firmly with censors. In Example One, there is no reaction of "culture"; in Example Two, the main reaction is "culture...
...early throes of Boston's censorship campaign, suggested that Harvard should be moved brick by brick, out to where the art begins. Instead, it was found more convenient, and nearly as effective, to send the light and learning cast. Boston is now culturally a province of Chicago; but its cod and its censors are still...
...this point the narrator is recalled to the U. S., but there he does some detective work. From Alberta's mother on Cape Cod, from the War Department, from a Boston War veteran who has married one of the amazons, he picks up more of Lieutenant Alberta's story. In the files of the War Department he is agreeably astonished to find records of her. "When first I told Colonel Cole that I was trying to trace a woman who had served in the signal corps, I had been pleased that he showed no surprise. After I became...
Most prosperous of all Iceland institutions is the Icelandic Association for the Promotion of the Fishing Trade?one of the few instances of a successful national monopoly. Through this association all Icelandic fishermen present a united front to European buyers of cod and herring. Experience has shown that by this method they can demand and get higher prices than ever before. Jealously guarded are Iceland's lucrative fisheries. Day and night they are patrolled by the country's two icebreakers, the Thor and the Odin. Trespassing trawlers are hauled before a civil court, and up to the present time fines...