Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business sessions the ladies concerned themselves with all manner of weighty problems, even discussing Inflation. They lunched and dined with the important artists, who got little time to eat. They nearly smothered Lawrence Tibbett trying to get his autograph. They flocked like hummingbirds around handsome, affable Arthur Walter Kramer, editor of Musical America who, dedicating his current issue to the Federation, ended his apostrophe: "It is, as it ever will be. Goethe's 'das ewig Weibliche' [the eternal feminine] that leads...
...termite is a pallid, squashy little bug which would be of no importance whatever were it not for its depraved appetite. It likes to eat wood. That taste makes it immensely important to building owners in tropical and warm temperate regions. Termites do yearly damage estimated at $29,000,000 to farm buildings in the South. Seven years ago they began to alarm California. Last week Entomologist George Ethelbert Sanders of the American Museum of Natural History sent a shiver through New York City by waking it to the fact that for the first time it is seriously infested with...
Goiter is fundamentally a thyroid enlargement. To the thyroid function cheery Dr. Crile has tried to apply his electronic theory of life (TIME, Dec. 5. et ante), a theory to which his colleagues listen with aseptic indulgence. Said Dr. Crile in Memphis: "What we eat is radiation. Our food is so much quanta of energy, not in that inert word calories, but quanta. The sun shines upon our food products, and the sun shines secondarily within us. in the body's protoplasm. Energy contained in food is put there by the sun's radiation on the atoms...
...more than 25 books. Broad-shouldered, ruddy-faced, unaffected, Walter de la Mare looks less like a poet than most poets, more like a sea-captain. Unclubbable, retiring, he lives in London's suburbs with his wife and four children, when he goes to the city likes to eat a hearty English lunch at such an ungossamer, unghostly chophouse as Simpson's on the Strand...
...philosophy, sex from a factual standpoint"; least popular topics were exploration and sporting events. His conclusion: "When I picture the life in the North and here, I say-my stomach is better off here but my mentality lives its best up there. . . . The inhabitants of the Koyukuk would rather eat beans with liberty, burn candles with independence, and mush dogs with adventure than to have the luxury and the restrictions of the outside world. A person misses many things by living in the isolation of the Koyukuk. but he gains a life filled with an amount of freedom, tolerance, beauty...