Word: feed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could not walk without help; he could only teeter on his toes. He could not hold pen, pencil or eating utensils; fellow students were obliged to write his notes and to feed him in the college dining-room. Although his mind was keen and he formed ideas clearly, he expressed himself with greatest difficulty. For studying his lessons (he was good in Greek, Latin, French), he had an apparatus built to hold his books...
...over puzzles, prize contests, "cinema titles," "Presidents' faces." Lamps burn in many garrets long after the day's work is finished while slaves to the dream of puzzle riches ponder and strive. Seduced by the promises of advertisement and feature contests, (arranged by canny publishers to force-feed circulation), the slaves work endlessly. Earnest, stupid, they know not that they have scarcely one chance in one thousand to win the prize...
...endless rain from the sky beat down on the glaciers and a hundred snow-capped summits. Little pools formed and overflowed into rivulets and tore down the sides of the ravines into the streams that gurgled and splashed in their headlong course to the mightier rivers they feed...
With the opening of a dining room in Hamilton Hall for lunch today, the Business School has five dining halls which feed daily 760 students residing in the Business School dormitory group. In these halls 112 student waiters are employed. In addition to these halls the dining room in the Faculty Club provides meals for 50 and the students' night restaurant, open from 6 o'clock till after midnight, takes care of 200. There is also a cafeteria where 100 members of the office force eat daily. Below the Faculty Club is a special dining hall where a student...
...Ohio, he used to belong to the "Chain Gang." This small village, close to Marion, Ohio, held also a band of boys calling themselves the "Stunners." The two gangs fought continually and thus became lifelong friends. Dan Crissinger of the "Chain Gang" was obliged " to milk cows before school, feed cows and chop wood after school. And one day Dan Crissinger literally "monkeyed with the buzzsaw" in his father's lumber mill. His hand was crippled so badly for farm work that his father saw the wisest thing would be to train the boy's mind. Therefore...