Word: feds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miracle belonging to Judaism and a puzzle belonging to science were reported solved last week. Manna, gift of Heaven upon which the Israelites fed on their exodus from Egypt to Canaan, was but the excretion from the bodies of certain coccids, a kind of plant lice which infested the tamarisk shrubs of the Sinai Peninsula...
...Rudyard Kipling is said to be the only high grade poet alive whose poetry royalties alone would keep him warmly clothed, well fed, adequately amused...
...Daily News (London): "President Coolidge is fed up, as Mr. Baldwin, a man very like him, notoriously is fed up and M. Briand in Prance, a man very unlike him, also is fed...
...Hoover, "that the Mississippi River can be controlled if a bold and proper engineering plan is developed." Concerning present conditions in the flood area, Mr. Hoover said that of 700,000 persons flooded, all but 20,000 had returned to their homes, although 150,000 still were being fed by the Red Cross. He said that there were 2,000,000 acres in which lost crops had been replanted and that "we hope the majority of this acreage was planted early enough to secure a full crop." But he also said that 1,500,000 acres have been under water...
...corpse." She meets Calpurnia, Caesar's wife. Calpurnia thanks her "for providing me with such an excellent excuse to exercise freely whatever poor talents I possess." The nature of these talents is reflected in Cleopatra's diary: "Received this morning a jar of preserved roses from Calpurnia. Fed it to my little pet rabbit. . . . Buried my little pet rabbit...