Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November 1911 Scott started south from winter quarters on Cape Evans with dogs, ponies, sledges. On the way the ponies were killed to feed men and dogs. Phenomenally good weather was soon followed by blizzards. Deep snow held the party in a soft vise. On Dec. 14 Scott wrote, "We are just starting our march with no very hopeful outlook." That same day the famed Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, traveling fast by a different route, became the first man to reach the South Pole...
With the appearance of a professional diver, 40 men, a dozen spectators, a rowboat, and a pneumatic hammer or air-compressor on Memorial Drive below Dunster House yesterday afternoon, the suspicion dawned, especially on the minds of Dunstermen, that the Strauss Hall feed had assumed new proportions. Such was not the case, however, for although water is the subject out into the river, in order to speed the drainage of storm and surface the drainage of storm and surface water from the vicinity...
...Boris looked out of the window and found the train stopping half way between Kecarevo and Strazica. Here was a stop he never makes when he drives the Sofia-Varna Express. He ran forward to the locomotive, found the stuffing in the axle boxes blazing from an overheated oil feed pipe. The regular engineer was painfully burned about the hand. Regally commanding alarmed passengers, who set up a cry of bombs, Bulgaria's Boris leaped to the throttle and drove the train carefully to the nearest bridge, where he put out the fire with wet sand. He dressed...
...their backyard gardens housewives stripped the Horticultural Building of rare plants and flowers, some worth as much as $200 each. Roving bands of youths stormed the booths of concessionaires. A 13-year-old boy was caught by police lugging off two huge bones of a prehistoric monster, to feed to his dog. Recurring showers of bottles from the 64-story Skyride Tower grew so alarming that the elevators were finally stopped. Dancing feet stomped into ruin landscaped lawns. Into Lake Michigan went benches and tables, and when policemen sought to admonish the revelers, they tossed the policemen...
...Citizens of the (nonexistent) World State. Autobiographer Wells denies that he is a dual personality but admits having a persona, an idea of himself somewhat at variance with the humdrum facts. Of late his persona has been a little under the weather. To get his persona back on its feed he has written this highly Wellsian Experiment in Autobiography...