Word: fed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German or Hebrew. For students who are superior even at Bronx High, there are sterner courses in English, math and physics, biology and chemistry, leading to college admission with advanced standing. So far the students have taken everything thrown at them; last fall a tenth-grade biology class was fed a hard, one-year biology course in one semester, and at the end, most of the experimental group rated above 95 on a New York State Regents exam. This semester, class members are doing independent research, prowling into such arcane matters as an attempt to find whether frog blood...
...this, the climate grew drier. Tanganyika's lowlands turned arid. The upland lake shrank, but it did not disappear. Up from the hungry plains trooped the animals, and soon ancient men moved in with them. For centuries they lived on the beaches, chipped their razor-sharp weapons and fed on the animals. When the rains came again, animals and men trooped back to the plains. This alternation seems to have happened four times; then the lake went dry. The shaggy men, the giant hippos, the giant pigs and the antlered giraffes abandoned it forever...
Smith: Right. But let's be sure what we're nervous about. After all, this recession was triggered by attempts to check inflation. The Fed's tight-money policy was right, and then you had that congressional howl about economy. But of course it's too much to expect that you can manipulate the economy with precision...
...facts of reality are supplied by Hoover, whose own files on World War I contain more than 1,500,000 items. His own role in that period was enormous, though widely obscured since then by his role in the era of Hoovervilles. He was not only the man who fed hungry Europe during and after the war; he was one of Wilson's first advisers, served on the President's "American War Council" and the "Committee of Economic Advisers" during the peace conference...
...Fed up with mamma's sighs, the sofa bed, and the kitchen-wall stains from "the smoke of a thousand lamb chops," Bill decides to quit college, quit home and go into business for himself. With Bill, venture capital is a question of whom to borrow from. Rich Uncle Simon seems a logical choice ("If you think that money isn't enough to make a person happy, you've just never met my Uncle Simon"), but Uncle Simon refuses with the reproach: "My boy, you want to learn how to shave on my beard...