Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...route to Europe on a Guggenheim fellowship, Kentucky's Author Jesse Stuart stopped off in New York, discussed the South: "When you eat what you raise and raise what you eat, you don't have to worry about money. We're the lucky ones. I get sorry for the city people. I come up here, and I see them sitting on the stoops, and no wonder they go wild when they lose a job. Mountain people are mountain people and they're different...
...were paying from their own pockets for bait bought from private dealers. In Colorado, an anti-grasshopper council was organized by the State agriculture extension director. In Arizona, a State entomologist predicted that the pests would this year consume much more than the 25% of range grass which they eat in normal years...
...three pitchers, pitching not over three innings each, the Nationals needed six. The Americans started with Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez of the Yankees. who hurled three scoreless innings. The Nationals started with Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, who reveled in striking out Lou Gehrig in the first inning. Gehrig made Dean eat crow in the third inning by smashing a home run, scoring his teammate Joe Di Maggio ahead...
Screech owls are heavy eaters, devour great numbers of field mice, insects and other farm pests. For that reason they are protected almost everywhere in the U. S., although they occasionally eat small birds. New York State game officials admitted last week that the patrolman and the Rockefeller warden had technically violated the law by shooting the owls, but because of the circumstances seemed disinclined to take any action. None of the persons attacked could sue anyone for their hurts or their scares, since neither landowners nor governments are liable for attacks by wild animals...
...impressively successful technique for hiking oil production is treatment with acid. In certain limestone formations, acid treatment not only "brings in" or increases production on new wells but rejuvenates old ones. Object of pumping in acid is to eat out new channels in the limestone. Hydrochloric acid is used, chemically inhibited so that it will not attack steel casing or tubing. The acid doctor pulls out the tubing and pumping equipment, runs the tubing back with a packer 15 ft. above the bottom so acid will not run up the hole, squirts...