Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, on Sunday, Mr. Mclntire handed out communion grape-juice in paper cups, communion bread on paper pie plates, 1,223 people filled his tent to eat the Lord's Supper. Attendance in Collingswood Church...
Lampposts were blown down, trees uprooted and their greenery set afire, buildings collapsed and streetcars & their occupants were blown to bits. Correspondent Matthews set about getting something to eat during a lull between raids, continued to observe morale in the restaurant. "I did not find it amusing," he cabled afterward, ''to see a great hulking fellow who was eating with his girl jump up and beat her to the kitchen by three strides as the next raid began...
...EATING ALLOWED" announced a sign tacked up last fortnight on the Anglican parish church in Kingston-on-Thames, near London. The Bishop of Stepney, invited to deliver the first of a series of lunch-hour talks organized by the vicar, Rev. T. B. Scruton, preached soberly to 200 people, half of them young white-collar workers, who munched apples, nuts, sandwiches, peppermints. Said a schoolteacher afterward, brushing off his crumbs: "I would not be here unless I were able to eat during the service...
...There is in France none of that penury and want and none of that forced labor which is to be found under the surface of the totalitarian countries. There are very few people in France who do not eat and drink well. There are still very few who do not manage to live within their incomes and save something...
...scholarship, "sentimental internationalists," theology, economists, and educators who permit children to study what they like rather than what is good for them (science). On the constructive side, he advocates biotechnology as a way to make nations self-sufficient, thermodynamics as a way to find out what people need to eat, psychology as a way to find out what they need to think, a nice balance of skepticism and action to find out the dictators...