Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course (unlike the aimless circling of running fits), snapping silently at anything in its path. Some mad dogs snap so hard they break their teeth and jaws. The final stage is paralysis, coma, death. The normal course of rabies: one week. Best procedure with a dog suspected early: isolate, feed lightly, do not touch...
...15th birthday last week was diligently done all over Russia. but nowhere with such zeal as in Red Moscow. For a whole week there was no food shortage. The State released at moderate prices thousands of tons of canned goods, butter, candy and other luxuries. To help feed more than 1,000,000 Russians who marched all day across the vast Red Square, while 1,000 marching bands blared Red music, the Moscow Soviet spent 4,000,000 rubles (nominally $2,000,000). Because Russians love nothing so much as the theatre, their smart State made them a birthday present...
...Vagabond knows, three-hundred-and-five feed long, one-hundred-and-thirteen feet wide, and the tower rises one-hundred-and-ninety feet above the Delta, but he is not appalled by that. It was on this Delta that Josiah Quincy paid his sixpence in 1821 to shoot at a turkey, the same stately Josiah Quincy who made the parting senior, having the customary cake and wine at Wadsworth House with his president, feel as though he had drunk "with Prince Metternich at Johannesberg a bottle of his choicest vintage." There on the Delta the Freshmen and Sophomores held their...
...breeders who had raised them from U. S. eggs. They were pinioned and tame. For six months the birds showed no attachment for each other, then the duck began sitting on five eggs. Five young ducks were hatched, four lived to maturity. They were very shy, would not feed while any human was near. For five weeks Lord Grey tried to tame them. "Late on summer evenings when I could get the canvasbacks by themselves I knelt, leaning over the edge of the bank, throwing small pieces of bread. ... In this way, evening by evening, I drew them nearer till...
...does not sing or dance. He buys some of his jokes from the Broadway "gag" factories, but writes most of his performances himself, working several hours a day on them. Wynn broadcasts consist of fast dialog between Funnyman Wynn and Graham McNamee. The latter does little talking except to feed cues. The program is punctuated by musical selections. Typical Wynn prattle: "The opera tonight. Graham, is very unusual ... the title of it is 'When You Were Eight and I was Nine and We Were 17.' ... It's about a boy and a girl...