Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours the weavers in the barn modified their hunger strike, announced that they would eat bean soup, but nothing else. Cauldrons of bean soup were rushed to their aid. A reporter of the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun scaled the chimney sitter's stack, asked his name. This the sitting printer refused to give. Said he, his spectacles flashing in the setting...
...Kansas City, Mo., Anthony C. Skrocki, 20, drove up to a police station, shouted: "Arrest me quick! I've just stolen this truck. I haven't had a thing to eat for three days and it must be about time to eat in there!" Anthony C. Skrocki was arrested...
Exclaimed Mrs. Warren: "Wild horses would not have drawn me to Russia if I had known what was waiting us. But I'm not sorry, for I saved my husband's life- I saw that he got food fit to eat...
Mothers Day was one of the first of the recent brilliant ideas concocted by ambitious salesmen. In its wake one completes the year with Fathers' Day. National blank bread week. International soap weeks, and even Universal eat-a-certain-kind-of-cracker month. There is now hardly a seven day stretch which does not yield its important hours to the grasping plans of retailers...
When an oyster egg hatches it produces a larva. The larva eventually "settles" and cements itself as a "spat" to a clean submerged stone or old shell, where it grows until big enough to eat. Just what makes the spats settle has always been an ostreiculture problem. Last week Herbert F. Prytherch of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries gave an answer, in Science...