Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME exaggerates the digestive ability of hogs. On April 6 you state that "pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease." This idea was rooted in a statement in my Next Hundred Years- ''Hogs eat coal and enjoy it" (TIME, June 1). Hogs undoubtedly eat coal. Many a mid-western porker sees the black lumps of bituminous coal constantly before him supplied by his indulgent master. If munching effectively and with gusto is a mark of enjoyment, then the pigs actually enjoy this unusual foodstuff, apparently considerably more than the average American enjoys his daily slabs...
Sirs: Esteemed William Esty Mydans, Ph.D., in TIME, June 1, cynically asks your authority for the statement that "pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease." I am able to supply the information on the highest authority, namely, Fred Fletcher, tenant on my farm here. On the return of myself and wife from a winter's cruise in Illinois, I proceeded to empty the ashes in my furnace which Fred had attended to during our absence. I was puzzled to see no fresh ashes on the dump or any evidence of ashes except that the coal (anthracite...
FROM a unique beginning 14 years ago with six students and a faculty of the same number, America's farthest north university, the University of Alaska, today has an enrollment of 200 from 19 states and two foreign countries. COLLEGIATE DIGEST presents here exclusive scenes of students life at this young but flourishing institution, one of the United States 69 land-grant institutions of higher learning
...college---and they do all of the teaching themselves, and like it! Under the direction of famed research man Dr. Donald A. Laird, the students prepare, lead and present their own discussions---but he does have to do a bit of refereeing when the arguments get too hot. COLLEGIATE DIGEST presents here in "picture and paragraph" some of the unusual features of these seminars...
...TIME, April 6, under Science appeared an article entitled "Rats" which opened with the statement, "Pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease." I am much interested in your authority for that assertion. I presume you are referring to swine pigs rather than guinea pigs. WILLIAM ESTY MYDANS...