Word: feed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scotland Yard of a young woman, aged 22, who is by profession a tester of radio tubes. The motion defining the scope of the Tribunal was drafted jointly by the Attorney General, Sir Thomas Inskip, the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks and Sir John Simon, highest feed British barrister and august Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME, Jan. 30). As the Tribunal sat, last week, the small gallery was crammed with smartest folk, including Margot, famed Countess of Oxford and Asquith. In the House of Commons Right Honorable Members repeatedly referred to the actions of the Scotland Yard...
...linseed oil and its derivatives. Out of flaxseed, which it gets in the U. S., Canada, Argentine, India, it makes the oil essential for the manufacture of paints, varnishes, printers' inks, linoleum, oilcloth (American cloth) and like products. By-products are linseed oil cake, oil meal, poultry feed, cattle feed...
...interesting in its tentative recommendations, which are elsewhere printed on this page. The assisement which has preceded them is notable for its more than superficial resemblance to the similar evaluations made by the Harvard Student Council. The assets are: (1) The clubs at present afford the only solution for feeding the upperclassmen. (2) Social advantages (3) Their innocuous position in student politics and activities; the liabilities are: (1) Failure to feed the 25 percent who are not elected. (2) Irresponsibility in matters of expense (3) Loss of time during the period of bidding (4) Cliques of preparatory school groups, "with...
...boat passes over them, separate the pools. Brush and windfalls are so dense along the river's banks that fishing is impossible except from a boat. A onetime employe of the late Mr. Pierce says the Brule trout used to be so thick and tame (from hand-feeding) that you could take them with only a landing-net. They were so thick that there was not enough natural feed for them. Stinting their artificial diet made them so ravenous that they would strike at anything you dropped overboard-a cigarette butt, a finger. Mr. Pierce was a sportsman...
...this "suppression" had not been a hoax to increase circulation, if there had really been a suppressed story to serve as its background, the results would undoubtedly have been similar but vastly greater in degree. The curiosity for readers would have had something substantial to feed upon and suppression would have defeated its own purposes, as I believe it usually does...