Word: feed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Savings accruing to the Government of South Africa during 1926 as a result of not having to feed and care for 15,000 prisoners who were released from jail in honor of the visit of Edward of Wales...
...left for acquiring our education. Though, to put it mildly, this is an exaggeration, the fact remains that for the Student Vagabond at least, the week-end offers a bright and golden opportunity from wanderings from the strictly academic pastures into regions where, to continue the metaphor, he may feed upon the more tender verdure of the art galleries and drink of the sparkling streams of music...
...controlled as could ever be kept up for laboratory specimens. The Cistercians never eat meat or fish; the Carthusians eat no meat, nor do they smoke or talk; the Benedictines eat meat sparingly, three days a week for half the year. On the other hand the Carmelites and Dominicans feed themselves as do lay Roman Catholics. These, therefore, were the "controls" for observations on the others. The Ministry of Health, pleased with the bright economy of the investigation, decided last week that there was no difference in the incidence of cancer among flesh-eaters or vegetable eaters. As many...
...Heifer Jessie's first stomach that the Pennsylvania State scientists believe they will find Vitamin B manufactured. Each day they will scoop a trifle of predigested vitamin-less hay through the cow's little window and feed it to dieted rats. If the rats do not get neuritis, Jessie does make Vitamin B. If they do get neuritis, then the experiment will have been usefully foolish. It will have closed one more needless door of scientific research...
...dozen head of young cattle, including calves, two or three horses and sometimes 200 sheep, and of course hens, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigs. As I was the only boy in our family, you can perhaps imagine how busy I could be. ... It was my job to feed and water the horses and clean out the stables; then I had to help feed the cows and cattle. . . . The hogs also had to be fed. . . . There was one other job that was wholly mine. No one ever took it away from me and there was no one else that I could wish...