Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel that men should be forced to eat in the Houses, since this system in no way encourages the democratic idea...
...their own vitriolic epithets. In doing so they make considerable asses of themselves in the eyes of their old friends, although a representative Boston audience looks on with good-natured indulgence. Of course, the third act reveals that the news of the legacy was false, and the inflated pair eat humble pie with obvious relish. There was also a colored maid whose paraphernalia consisted of a grotesque walk, and an inadvertent un-negroid voice. This young lady was a friend of the advertisers in the programme...
...sufficiently cut price anything can be sold. Famine-stricken China, too poor to buy $1 wheat, 50? wheat, or even 25? wheat, would gladly eat up the whole world surplus if offered 10? wheat or 5? wheat. As Samuel Roy McKelvie, wheat member of the U. S. Federal Farm Board, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska, chief U. S. delegate to the London Wheat Conference said last week...
Fortunately for the British Isles they are small and populous enough to eat all the wheat they can grow, and much more. They have no "wheat problem." They were not represented at the Wheat Conference of Eleven Exporting Countries which met in London last week. These countries, their wheat production and their wheat exports in millions of bushels for 1930 were...
...milk. The National laboratories, headed by vitamin-expert Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum (TIME, April 6), were experimenting with two new products; soft curd milk and sweet acidophilus. More important, National was pressing, on two fronts, its bold expansion policy. For though people may weep during Depression, still they must eat and drink and National Dairy is marching steadily...