Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year, as a two-year-old, Johnstown won only seven of twelve races. Because Johnstown ate too fast and often made himself ill, his trainer invented a sievelike device to feed him oats slowly. Johnstown swiftly improved. This spring, in three starts, no rival could get within six lengths of his heels at the finish line. Last week, Owner Woodward saw Johnstown join one of the Derby's smallest fields as one of the shortest favorites in the history of the race...
...merely by diplomatic "good neighbor" overtures. Long have we valued Latin imports and found their mines and plantations a profitable spot for investments. But our interest has progressed little beyond the clink of finance. Our schools and colleges have been too concerned with falling Romes and Virgin Queens to feed upon the rich historical and cultural life of our neighbors...
...from a bonanza, The Netherlands might be an economic burden to Germany. It is dependent upon imports for 30% of its foodstuffs. Germany can scarcely feed its own people. Most important, Dutch bankers finance with generous credits the largest part of Germany's raw-material purchases, and this trade would end when the guilder ceased to be the monetary unit of an independent country. Dutch neutrality was of crucial importance to Germany in the World War. Great shipments of materials passed through the Allied blockade -via the neutral Netherlands...
...April 20, Robert M. Bunker, Treasure of the Council, announced last night. Applicants may apply to Bunker at Winthrops H-34 or any of the other members of the scholarship committee, who are Cleveland Amory '39, Eliot A-32, Phil C. Neal '40, Dunster G-52, and Morton G. Feed...
Because he was annoyed by the noise of WPA pneumatic drills near his Kansas City house, Dr. Logan Clendening ran amuck, smashed with an ax the valve and feed pipe of the air compressor supplying the drills, was jailed (TIME, Feb. 20). Last week he pleaded guilty to charges of destroying property and disturbing the peace, was fined...