Word: eats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, April 6, under Science appeared an article entitled "Rats" which opened with the statement, "Pigs eat coal with relish, digest it with ease." I am much interested in your authority for that assertion. I presume you are referring to swine pigs rather than guinea pigs. WILLIAM ESTY MYDANS...
...Chemical Engineer Clifford Cook Furnas in his recent The Next Hundred, Years: "The energy requirements of the average person's body could be fulfilled by the daily consumption of less than a pound of soft coal. . . . My own advice, however, is: do not attempt a coal diet . . . hogs eat coal and enjoy it, but they also eat rattlesnakes and enjoy those, too."-ED. Planes & Weather...
Czechoslovakia is a democracy but Spivak included a chapter on its terror because Czechoslovak peasants, like Poles, eat potatoes without salt, give up everything they have to tax collectors to pay for Czechoslovakia's huge Army...
...great and so stirred up against capital punishment that the authorities won't dare go ahead with an execution. But I am before my time, I suppose. They crucified Christ, they stabbed Lincoln, they put Mrs. Pankhurst in prison, and I suppose they will martyrize me. I eat only fruit juices. I have gained 50 pounds since my husband died 18 months ago. The light of my life went out, and now my glands have ceased to function...
...time Smuts joined the fighting the Boers knew their goose was cooked but meant to burn it to a crisp before they quit. With famed Guerrillas Botha, de Wet, de la Rey, they raided in mounted commandos, depending on prisoners for rifles, ammunition, clothes, often literally fighting to eat. The British took to burning farms, interning the women and children in concentration camps (20,000 of them died there). When the Boers took prisoners they swapped rags for uniforms, then turned the soldiers-loose. With a commando of 360 Smuts set out to invade the Cape, still hoping the Boers...