Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With the praise she received, the Cuban prodigy could have gone on to make flashy headlines. Instead, she stuck to her studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, lives in one room with her mother, father, two sisters. A subsidy from the Cuban Government barely gives them enough to eat...
...Tulsa, Okla., a group of domestic science teachers, doctors and socialites ate crow at a formal dinner to prove that crow is good to eat. Local market price for crow...
...Evanston, Ill., soon bought out his partner. In 1880 he soared to the top of the brawling harvester business with a twine binder which he picked up from one John F. Appleby. Twine binders did not cut into the wheat or, like wire binders, kill cattle that happened to eat a strand. Struggling little Northwestern University, founded by Methodists, learned early to count on pious, prosperous William Deering. From 1876 until his death in 1913 William gave Northwestern $1,000,000 in 55 small but steady driblets. Most of his $15,000,000 estate he walled to his two sons...
Last autumn the Freshman class roused itself to present a great petition, begging permission to eat meals in the Houses without extra charge. Yesterday being the day for decisions, the College administration acted on the advice of the Student Council and announced that a brand new experiment will begin on April 10th. Freshmen may eat one meal a week in the Houses, exchanging Union fare for House fare on the counter signature of a House member. On the basis of this test flight, the final, permanent model will...
...vanished at last. There is no opposition. There are a few scattered Communists still alive, but in hiding. There are still a few liberals not yet confined to barbed-wired "camps." Factories are silent and empty; the ports are clogged with rusting ships; only the rich have enough to eat. When old-fashioned Liberal Andrew Hillier, second cousin to Dictator Frank, gets back to England from his self-imposed exile in Norway, this is the England he finds. Andrew's sister has married Richard Sacker, the Dictator's right-hand man, so Andrew has some privileges where otherwise...