Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring Chiang made his decision. He would nationalize the land tax. Landowners would pay taxes, not to provincial governments, but to the central Government. More important yet, they would pay, not in paper money, but in kind: in rice, wheat, hard grain. With the collected foodstuffs the Government would feed its armies and civilian employes. Inflation and hoarding would be struck a blow at the same time, especially in Szechwan...
...daughter of a naval officer, I was the especial object of Mr. Hoover's attention. Fixing me with an eye as compelling as the Ancient Mariner's, he would demand accusingly: "Do you realize that the cost of firing a gun just once would feed all the undernourished children in the United States for a whole year...
...were famed for their harp music, original poetry, fruit juices, ice cream and the number of reporters present. At one party Dr. Pease told the press about a horse of his acquaintance who had jumped off a cliff after some tea leaves had accidentally been mixed with his feed...
...mother should not kiss and cuddle her baby, should turn a deaf ear when he cries, should feed and tend him with cold regularity. So ran the advice most pediatricians gave parents a few years ago. But many of these "scientific," timetable children have grown up neurotic, unhappy. So the doctors have returned to Nature: they now believe in old-fashioned mother love and intelligent laissez faire...
...whole membership of the club is expected at the Fall Feed, to be held late Sunday afternoon at the Blue Hills Reservation South of Boston. The bicycle boys will take a long four through the country and join at supper the other men who have hiked or ridden horse back during...