Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make propositions!" snapped the Marshal, and only after the Germans had been made to eat a great deal more crow did the negotiants finally come to terms...
...received from all his doctors the minutest account of what was to be fought and how. Unlike His Majesty George V, who did not bring himself to chew and swallow solid food while his royal appetite was in abeyance (TIME, Jan. 14), the Generalissimo continued, even last week to eat with a precision which his doctors declared absolutely astounding in a patient thus far gone...
...like all animals, needs salt (sodium chloride) physiologically. But his taste for salt is an acquired habit. Cannibals, Eskimos and other carnivorous peoples, use no salt. Like dogs, cats, jackals, lions, they get their requisite sodium chloride from the flesh they eat raw, or roasted. (Boiled flesh loses its salt.) Most men, however, are omnivorous. The salt they get from fish, fowl and beast is too little for bodily needs...
...eggs, traveled in a baggage car last week from Woods Hole, Mass., where the Government maintains a fish hatchery, to Jamaica Bay, L. I. There they were dumped into the coast waters to hatch and grow. In three years, the new flounders will be big enough to catch and eat. The ocean around New York Harbor is too filthy for flounders to breed naturally...
...Hypnotized Rabbit." From all this it must not be supposed that the causes of the present civil war are purely religious. There is also the very strong if not major element of personal rivalry?"dog eat dog" ?among Mexico's many men of the sword. It is of the very first significance that, last week, neither the government nor Chief Rebel Gilberto Valenzuela laid any great stress on such appeals to principle, credulity or reason as helped to win the Great War. Any fight in Mexico is, at bottom, just dogfight, though the triumph of General Calles would mean...