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Word: eate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Give us credit when you can, for you never miss an opportunity to take credit from us; the South was not licked, it just wore itself out whipping the Yankee and then went home to get a bite to eat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Shanghai. At the mouth of the Yangtze is commercially and financially the New York City of China. North of Shanghai coolies eat wheat and speak an approximation of Mandarin. South of Shanghai coolies eat rice and speak Cantonese. Until 1842 the Manchu emperors refused foreigners the right to trade at Shanghai, but in that year a British fleet sailed menacingly up the Yangtze and by a treaty signed at Nanking five Chinese cities were opened for trade and settlement. Subsequently most important of them was Shanghai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Sailors Ashore | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...quarters, reciting, presumably: "She loves me, she loves me not," to the accompaniment of horrified squawks from the chicken. Presently a Brooklyn passenger named Kay Nelson protested to Mr. Berger. Mr. Berger reassured Mr. Nelson. Said he, "I am only taking off the feathers because I am going to eat this chicken when I get home. I was once a barber and an expert hairdresser and I know all about things like this. It is not hurting the little chicken." Looking skeptically at the little chicken's nude fundament, Mr. Nelson was not so sure. He began to fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...used it to wash out his ears and flick flies from his withers. Congo immediately took to Dr. Blair, who three times a day fed him bananas, cabbages, carrots, sweet potatoes, condensed milk. Except for three rough days, Congo took his food with relish. Normally okapis are browsers. They eat tender shoots from the tops of shrubs and trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Congo | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...booth. There is no trouble with the equipment and no cause for alarm. I am using this means to protest to you against the inhuman working conditions in this theatre. I work seven days a week, eleven and one-half hours a day, have no vacations, no rest. I eat in the booth where the heat is sometimes unbearable. The management refuses to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes & Settlements | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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