Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Owned by General Navigation Co., Ltd., Vancouver, the biggish steel steamer Mogul has lain for months off the coast of Southern California. Like a great sow whose piglets feed and scamper, the Mogul has provided constant streams of assorted liquor to a fleet of ten speedboats...
Perhaps the change was too revolutionary; perhaps the United States had no secondary schools which could feed a college of this kind. But revolutionary changes are adjusted by time, and even secondary schools can be taught to improve. A more persistent enemy lies in the conviction that there was something holy and inviolable in the concept of course credits, in the idea that a college should award its degree on the basis of separate goals achieved, and the achievement recorded. To this conviction is linked an idea incomprehensible to the European, the idea that the college should police the minds...
...thinks the shark business has a big future. Shark oil is used for tanning, steel-tempering, paint-making. Tons of shark meat, which tastes something like lobster, are sold daily throughout the world, usually under the name of "rock salmon" or "grayfish." Ground-up shark carcass makes good poultry feed or fertilizer. Chinese snap up shark fins for making soup...
...know the best people, and intimately too. Why I heard the troubles and woos of half the prominent men in Massachusetts. Some of them even come to me for advice and I gladly give it to them when I can. Their questions range all the way from what to feed a sick parrot, to what to tell their frantic wives when they arrive home...
...keep the sound-tight rooms from being stuffy, NBC installed an air-conditioning plant consisting of 64 independent units. In an hour these machines suck in 20,000,000 cu. ft. of Manhattan air, dry or moisten it, warm or cool it as required, feed it through the studios so fast that a complete change of air is effected every eight minutes...