Word: feds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of mules and in spite of poor housing conditions, the doughboy must eat. "No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer," said the lewd but shrewd General John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough. As everyone knows, the U. S. Army gets no beer from the Government. As for the beef-very little of that can be bought with a daily per capita food appropriation of 35c. (The Navy is allowed...
...slowly and the food is perfectly digested in the intestinal trac He appears to understand that he must masticate thoroughly and takes him 12 hours out of 24 for his meals. This test shows how patients who have had part of ther stomachs removed because of cancer should be fed...
Some in grease and some in bathing suits, some young, some old, all fat, all strong, all more or less indistinguishable as to sex and features, surrounded by tug boats, press boats, ferryboats, launches, shouted at by coaches, fed by trainers, 96 able swimmers got into the cold water at Catalina Island, one day last week and turned their numerous, goggled, and determined faces toward the unseen California mainland, 2 miles away. Day faded. Light came out on the shore. Now an then on the bow of a tug a trainer lit a red flare to show that his swimmer...
Since Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin tendered his resignation as pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to become president of Union Theologic Seminary (TIME, Nov. 15), his old congregation has been as unhappy as a household with a cook about leave. The trustees, fed for 22 years on Dr. Coffin's fare of thought, have sought for some young Epictetus to take his place and last week they named their choice...
...their ports. The Government did not officially close the river locks at the "Soo" until Dec. 16. As the Sainte Marie smashed the ice, sailors aboard the freighters* enjoyed themselves. Some went hunting, walking across the surface ice. Others played pinochle in the warm quarters provided for them. All fed well, said their masters. They were drawing two weeks' extra pay for doing nothing. A fortnight of this and the channel jam was cleared. It would freeze again immediately and block some dozen boats still en route. But the Lake Carriers Association, which had ordered out the ice relief...