Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Came the Franco-Prussian War, Sedan, the fall of the Empire. The Prussians encircled Paris. Fiery Leon Gambetta escaped in a balloon to direct the war from Tours. The beleaguered Parisians were left to eat rats and sawdust bread, shout the "Marseillaise" from the ramparts. Banker Dreyfus had an opportunity to purchase Critic Timbal's collection at a very attractive price. During the next 20 years, when defeated France was re-establishing herself, he had many similar opportunities...
...from the aquarium, her mate will kill her. He zealously guards the nest until the young are hatched, and even guards the young for three or four days until they have developed enough to care for themselves. Then, having performed his family duties, the male will turn cannibal and eat the young he has been guarding, unless he is also removed. He can then be reunited with his mate...
...raise so many hogs.' If you must raise hogs, raise thin ones, raise them for meat, not for fat. We must remember the younger generation in Germany. It is keen on sport and hygiene. It thinks of its waistline. It absolutely cannot be made to eat hog fat and lard...
...week by a frenzied all-night demonstration of relief and joy. Rumania, like the Biblical father of the prodigal son, seemed to say: "This my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. . . . Bring hither the fatted calf and kill it; and let us eat and be merry...
Example: Both Scientist Haldane and Lord Birkenhead feel that eventually the farmer will become extinct, driven off his land by great synthetic food factories which will make things to eat cheaper than they can be grown...