Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their training, skill and experience. Backed by many interested professionals and public-spirited citizens, and by the New York State Nurses Association, the Todd campaign got under way to a fanfare of agitation about "bootleg nurses." As horrible examples, the campaign literature cited: 1) a nurse who tried to feed a chop, two vegetables and a piece of pie to a child with a temperature of 104.5°; 2) a nurse who gave baths, accompanied by vigorous twisting and mauling, to a man with a fractured skull; 3) a nurse who thought that three one-quarter grain tablets of morphine...
...dairy breeds do not make first-class beef, hence, a breeder or raiser of dairy cattle would send his heifer calf to the butcher for veal at eight weeks, if he knew she would not breed, produce a calf and become a milch cow later-rather than feed the calf for twelve to 18 months, find she could not be gotten with calf, and then had to go to the butcher...
...Philadelphia, the city zoo acquired two Komodo lizards from the Dutch East Indies, tried to feed them raw hamburger, found they would eat only eggs. The keepers forthwith filled empty eggshells with raw hamburger, fed them to the dragon-lizards, found they didn't know the difference...
...certified in the International Settlement alone, with 563 victims of cholera dead and doctors vaccinating night and day in efforts to head off an epidemic of smallpox. Conditions were so appalling that Japanese insisted on sterilizing all food brought out of the Settlement before they would venture to feed it to Japanese troops fighting at the front...
Wild Animal World starts out with two chapters entitled: "First Catch Your Animal," and "-And Feed Him Well," by Dr. Ditmars and Mr. Bridges respectively. Most zoo animals nowadays are caught by and bought from professional collectors who make a business of knowing just what each zoo needs and how much it can pay. Stocking a zoo is largely a matter of purchasing good show specimens. Occasionally, however, the Bronx zoo will commission a man to go on a trip to get an especially rare animal. Frank Buck was sent for an Indian rhino, Robert L. Garner was sent...