Word: fed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year there were 22,000,000 hungry Russians whom the Soviet Government did not have grain enough to keep alive. The American Relief Association came to their rescue, and fed many of the starving. This year the American Relief Administration estimates there will be 13,000,000 hungry mouths that Russia cannot feed...
...Library authorities, quick to serve the convenience of the greatest possible number, have decided to give half the scheme a trial, and remove at least the second-named inconvenience. Consequently, books may now be returned early on Sunday mornings. If the new box proves its usefulness, is well fed and not abused, the other half of the plan can be carried out later...
...character that it was no longer possible to assimilate the newcomers. They formed a constantly growing abscess in the body of our nation which no amount of legislative surgery could drain, until at last the physicians clearly saw that the only cure lay in destroying the disease which fed it, in effectively limiting immigration. Since that time, the abscess has shrunk noticeably. The fresh supplies of labor, however, are no longer forthcoming and industry is suffering accordingly...
...right, no doubt, that professors should be "progressive" and "modern". So it ought to be gratifying to hear Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard say, in the contemporary classic tongue, that "we have been fed up on our ancestors." The expressive phrase in the mouth of the historian indicates he jauntiness which a Professor of History must show to prove that he has no old-fashioned ideas about "the dignity of history." Beautiful old Professor Torrey of the Cambridge of fifty years ago, who looked like an eighteenth century French Marquis, never dreamed of such felicities of speech...
...last three years he has devoted his time to lecture work and writing. He has done much investigating of labor conditions by working in various countries "incognito" as a regular day laborer. His two latest books "What's on the Worker's Mind" and "Full up and Fed Up" embody the facts gleaned from these investigations. Mr. Williams also has written frequent articles on labor problems for magazines and newspapers...