Word: fed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great White God and his crew of Demi-Gods had come at last. In the shade of the ohia-lehuas, the priests chewed the meat of coconuts. Then they removed the juice from their mouths and rubbed it on the face and arms of Capt. Cook. He was fed with the flesh of sacrificed animals, washed down by the remains of the juice. Every day there were new ceremonies, until Capt. Cook sailed away several weeks later. One of his crew had died; the Hawaiians thought that rather peculiar, but otherwise they were satisfied with the visit of the Great...
...Research indicates that sauerkraut, despite its Teutonic name, originated not in Germany but in Asia. Tartars ate it first, introduced it to the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe, who fed it to their German friends, who brought it to the U. S., where it was first made commercially in St. Louis. Some physicians recommend sauerkraut for constipation, intestinal putrefaction, because the lactic acid responsible for the sour taste keeps down the birthrate of putrefying bugs. * Furfural, a chemical compound made from corncobs or oat hulls, once a museum curiosity, is now used in the preparation of synthetic resin as bakelite...
...seed is planted on a thin slice of cork floating in the solution; the floats are kept damp until tiny rootlets come crawling down into the water, when the plant can take care of itself. Six foot sweet peas, tall dahlias fed on food pills have bloomed profusely in winter at room temperatures...
...instructor in Diseases of Children, Jefferson Medical College, announced the results of his experiments with malnourished children at the Ocean City (N. J.) Seashore Home for Babies. Gelatin was added to the milk for one group of babies; another group received the same diet minus the gelatin. The gelatinized fed infants gained more, vomited less, regurgitated rarely. Gelatin makes cows' milk more digestible by breaking up the tough, difficultly digested casein allowing the digestive juices to get at the smaller particles; at the same time its spreading sticky quality keeps food down which in liquid form would be immediately...
...possible, therefore, to divide the more influential of the guests of Financier Jones into two classes: 1) lean, hungry Senators and Representatives from the South and West, leaders in Democratic and near-Democratic states, and 2) jovial, well-fed city bosses from the North and East. The issue between the two groups was sharply drawn, the South v. the Cities, Dry v. Wet, Protestant v. Catholic, the Field v. Candidate Smith. Almost for the first time in party history, the bosses were united on a candidate and promised to stampede the convention...