Word: fed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shoes and steps into the prior. Nor does he seem a quite at home, naturally enough. Fingers that are more used to the aigrette, than to the pen do not response easily to the new demands; his humor somehow lacks that airy step of one who is well-fed and content with the universe. Yet now that this creature stands in the middle of our own clean carpet, was are rather obligate to decide what we will do with him. For though he arrogating pretends that he is the master, we know better. He is before us holy on sufferance...
...choose between the Shakespearean drama and the modern farcical acrobatics. It is inaccurate to say that one thing is preferred to another unless both have been equally and fairly presented for choice. Unfortunately the public's taste is the result of the stuff with which it has been fed...
Perhaps no phase of college life is so incomprehensible to the layman as the part played by the various tutoring schools. In reviewing a course, the material of the lectures is condensed and sweetened, the essence of the outside reading carefully extracted and flavored, and the whole fed to the faltering student in- a form most readily assimilated by his starved intellect. Repudiated by some, instructors, ignored by the faculty at large, these establishments conduct a thriving business,-and will continue to prosper just as long as they satisfy the need of the undergraduate...
...Japanese resent our racial discrimination against them; there is commercial conflict to be reckoned with; and most important of all, by a systematic "education" through the medium of newspapers and motion pictures, an utterly false impression about each other is cultivated in the two peoples. At home, we are fed upon the sensationalism of cheap dailies and periodicals and anti-Asiatic films; those who have investigated conditions in Japan report the same situation there. Propaganda in one form or another is an incalculably powerful weapon; and when it fosters misunderstanding of the character, the aims, or the common sympathies...
...Hoover has stated the situation with his usual directness and brevity. In the desolated parts of Europe today, the parts which cannot provide even the scantiest food to keep all their population alive, there are three million and a half children, being fed by supplies from this country. If these supplies should fail for a fortnight, those three million and a half innocent little boys and girls would perish. We must see to feeding them through the winter until next year's crops become available, about the middle of July...