Word: eats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rearmament will eat up a great part of the billion pengös, but Admiral Horthy, too old and shrewd a campaigner to let the world know how much, preferred to emphasize Reconstruction...
...years from an average of under ten quintals (36.7 bu.) per hectare (2.47 acres) to somewhat over 16. Thus, without much increasing Italy's total wheat acreage, which was impossible, total yearly production was increased from 45 million quintals to 80 million. Since the Italian people continue to eat about 75 million quintals, this meant that Premier Mussolini had won the "battle of the grain" (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927), made Italy-self-sufficient in wheat for the first time in modern history...
...music and good taste in advertising. Her aim is to make newsboys whistle strains from Aïda. She storms at what she considers the state of radio broadcasting, loathes crime stories, poorly performed music, women baritones, precocious child artists, true story programs, advertisers who coax children to eat their products, amateur hours...
...than the chemical anesthesia now in use. Ingenious Ichthyologist Coates has already found a practical use for these fantastic fish. For years the Manhattan Aquarium was chivied by large river rats that invaded it during the winter. The rats would climb to the top of tanks, snatch fish out, eat them. Dr. Coates bought a few cats, but they preferred fishing too. Thereupon Coates opened the electric eel tank, turned the fish loose on the floor to play with the cats. The latter promptly pawed the eels, were thoroughly shocked. The Aquarium cats, now firmly convinced that all fish...
...matter for regret that Herr Hitler is a man of such chilly personal correctitude!" the House of Commons was told in an impassioned speech last week by warm, beef-eating, virile Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, M. P., Conservative. "If he would smoke, eat and drink, Hitler might be more human and less dangerous. He might, like other dictators, be more anxious to take another person's concubine rather than their country! Instead, he is a great big bully in Europe...