Word: fed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is some feeling among the Senate Democrats that the public is getting "fed up" on investigations, that it would be better not to press this one. There had been talk that having attacked Fall, Denby, Daugherty, the Democrats were ready to proceed to Mellon, Wallace, Hoover. It appears...
...Passed by vote of 240 to 97 a bill approximating $10,000,000 for the purchase of foodstuffs in the United States, which are to be shipped abroad in Shipping Board vessels and fed to destitute women and children in Germany...
...Dutch scientist named Eijkman discovered that fowls contract a certain disease like beriberi if fed upon polished rice; that they can be cured by feeding them the part of the rice grain removed in polishing. In 1911 Casimir Funk, a Pole, proposed the name vitamine for this essential substance, whatever it was. Since that time vitamin has followed vitamin in quick succession?mainly discovered in U. S. laboratories. The orthodox three are "Fat-soluble A," "Water-soluble B," and "Water-soluble C." Then. there is Vitamin X," the reproductive vitamin. And lately many investigators have been working...
This depends upon how you define religion. If Religion means merely high-brow sermons, beautiful church music, well fed preachers dilating upon conventional subjects and attempting to teach economics to congregations, or attendance at church, we need no more. We have enough. If religion means the life of God in the soul of man (this is the real definition), then this is the crying need of America today. But the average preacher is helpless to satisfy...
With this announcement, Secretary of War Weeks stamped out the many strange rumors which for more than a week had fed on the proposed sale of arms to Mexico (TIME, Jan. 7). The announcement, however, of the accomplished fact did not quell Congressional criticism...