Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this Democratic member of the House Flood Control Committee, "that Congressmen from the South have been less interested in Mississippi flood control as a problem than in having flood control funds spent in their own section. I argued for six years for flood control on the upper streams that feed the Ohio and drain into the Mississippi before we finally got it into a bill which passed last session." Unfortunately, the bill to which Congressman Griswold referred was the $320,000,000 Omnibus Flood Control bill for which Congress failed to vote an appropriation. Last week chances were strong that...
...Corso")* in somewhat this wise: Middle-aisling it on Feb. 6 are the Big Patoot's Manchild No. i, Vittorio, 21, who sports a fine young spinach, and his pretty poopsy, Signorina Orsola Buvoli of Milan, penniless and proud of it. Rome's swellegant hotel will feed the churchgoers out of the Big Patoot's private cache of frog-skins. . . . Dream pigeon of the week is Silvia di Rosa. The date: Feb. 8. Was Rome caught with its toga down by the sudden announcement last week that her Mark Antony is the 25-year-old boss...
...superficialities of life must be recognized; the real rewards go to the innovators for their vision and originality. There is little but the ego of man which is increased by knowledge "of wide surface and small depth", or as President Conant expressed it, "Few of the values which feed the human soul can be found by studying mere information...
...letters against a blue field, proclaimed itself as Look, The Monthly Picture Magazine. Also on the cover, a convict, Franklin Roosevelt, an actress and an x-ray of a woman's legs fought for attention with a large portrait of Germany's General Goring bottle-feed-ing his lion...
When British scientists get together, they like to speculate and philosophize. take a "broad view," argue publicly and sometimes acrimoniously. In Atlantic City, A. A. A. S. officers and bigwigs made more theoretical and philosophical speeches than usual last week, but there was a fine display of devices to feed the traditional appetite of U. S. science for neat experiments and clever machines (see p. 50). There was a burglar alarm which fills a room with ultrashort radio waves, so that a person stepping into the room interrupts the waves and actuates the signal. There was a photoelectric meter which...