Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yelled a girl, jumping up. 'Feed...
...three days Cairo's teeming population was tripled. To feed and clothe the visiting horde tons of mutton and beef were roasted and distributed in the city parks, untold galabiahs, the long cotton nightshirts which are the chief garments of the Egyptian fellaheen, were given away. Considering the excitement with which Egyptians approach such a simple problem as boarding a street car, it was a triumph for Cairo's police and details of the Egyptian Army that only 400 people fell from balconies, were trampled to death, pushed under cars, into the Nile, or otherwise injured...
...Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed herpetologist of the New York Zoological Park ("Bronx Zoo"), has discovered that vampire bats from the American tropics do not, as commonly supposed, suck blood from the animals on which they feed. They lap it up, the tongue darting in & out of the wound four times a second. When Dr. Ditmars brought back four vampires from Trinidad, it seemed a good chance for scientists to check another theory-that the bat's saliva contains some substance which prevents blood from coagulating and so keeps the nutrient liquid flowing freely...
...Ditmars bats were allowed to feed on experimental animals by zoologists who measured the clotting time of blood mixed with vampire saliva against that of other blood. They found no difference in c'otting time or coagulating substance, according to a Science Service report last week. To keep the blood flowing, the bat appears to massage the wound with its tongue...
...will if I feed it to him like women are gonna feed men for the rest of time...