Word: feds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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House, in quiet Kensington (London), where they settled down fairly permanently in 1914 when Belgium engaged the Hoover genius to keep 10,000,000 warhemmed people fed for four years. Intellectual, she helped her husband in his post-War diversion of translating Georg Bauer's De Re Metallica from cryptic 16th Century Latin into quaint but useful English...
...Reminded by the Red Cross that 71,052 refugees from last year's flood were still being fed and sheltered by charity in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, President Coolidge evinced an ever-increasing. desire to have Congress get a flood measure passed this session. He looked upon the measure drafted and reported by Chairman Jones of the Senate Commerce Committee and found some good in it, since it recognized the principle of local contribution and since it placed Chief of Engineers Jadwin, and a civilian engineer to be appointed by the President, on a board of three (with...
...young rats Dr. Evans, head of the University of California's department of anatomy, fed all five vitamins with nourishing, highly purified casein and recrystallized cane sugar. The rats remained half grown and sexually immature. Previous experiments had shown that rats given food that contained the five vitamins thrived normally. Clearly, Dr. Evans' diet lacked some element present but not recognized in the foods of foregoing vitamin experiments...
Fresh lettuce was added to the rats' meals. The animals swiftly waxed mature in all respects. Dr. Evans fed others liver with the basic regimen. Liver, too, effectively matured them. Dr. Evans and his aides decided that both liver and lettuce contained some element the lack of which prevented physical maturity. They reduced that common element of lettuce and liver to a form that was relatively pure as a physical preparation but intricately complex as a chemical compound. They named it Vitamin F and guarded well their research. Immediately upon the public announcement last week, Dr. Evans took train...
...Duchess of Wrexe" was dead, but London's aristocracy remained, despite postwar cocktail sets and dole-fed Lower Classes. There were still the flower women at the fountain in Piccadilly Circus, still the lions and Nelson, still the fireplace sanctum under the stairs in St. James's Club, still Big Ben and Curzon Street, still the higgledy piggledy of Shepherds Market. There was still Mrs. Beddoes, charwoman these many years to that kind Miss Janet and her beautiful sister Miss Rosalind, poor and snobbish. And today, being the wedding, was a holiday, for Mrs. Beddoes was going inside...