Word: eating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maintain a high price in the domestic market, and take a loss if necessary on the surplus sold abroad. To this the Administration answers: If the farmers profit on their product, they will produce more; the surplus will grow larger until the loss on the surplus will eat up the domestic profit...
...seems no longer aware of his existence. He added: "I left her at the Burton kennels when I went away. By now she's so attached to Lady Burton that when they brought her to me at York House the other day she whined all night and refused to eat. Molly certainly knows her own mind. She's always been one of the most self-willed Cairn terriers in England...
...what did they eat? 'Supreme of Cantaloupes au Porte. . .' Then after dinner they had cigars and cigarets. But they did not heed the remark of that great Vice President, Thomas R. Marshall, about a good 'five-cent cigar. These birds had to have Corona-Coronas at 70? apiece...
...Zobel could determine, but since The Volunteers of America were ready to pay for such mummery, it was not his part to find fault. He attracted a good deal of attention from passing children, which was disagreeable to him. One morning last week he got up too late to eat breakfast. As the hours passed he noticed that the air was getting curiously dark. A little drum pounded in the back of his neck. Suddenly his bell slipped out of his hand and jangled, with a thin note, to the pavement. Mr. Zobel pitched forward on his face. Death, said...
...seated himself under a great tree by the side of a river to eat, when the secret defenses which he had been besieging fell; the answer came to him, and he saw life plain. For a day and a night he sat in profound thought, and then arose to impart his secret to the world: "Whoso loseth his life shall find...