Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tommies would get there, or how the impoverished hospital would feed them, he did not say. The board thought it likely that neighboring brokers and lawyers would pay the bills...
...With funds and fleet bigger than ever since The Netherlands and Belgium had joined them, the Allies were not to be starved so long as the Nazis would let them trade overseas. Canadian bins held enough wheat to feed the Allies for a year. Experts reckoned the U. S. would have 346,000,000 bu. of wheat, 266,352,000 Ib. of lard, 692,000,000 bu. of fodder corn in its storehouses this autumn. Last week Hoover's Committee, the Aldrich Committee, the Red Cross and Friends Service Committee were all gathering funds to feed war refugees...
...last week bellicose Italian yelps had begun to sound like those of a hungry jackal that wants to feed but is kept from his prey by a wolf. All week long the tension mounted. Italian liners' sailings were canceled. Italian schools were ordered to close May 31, a month earlier than usual. Crown Prince Umberto went over to the belligerent side in a speech to his troops warning them to be ready. Benito Mussolini topped off a Sunday of checking up on military preparations by appearing before several hundred Fascist youths demonstrating for war. Italy...
...Baxter went further and discussed academic freedom: "Chancellor Capen of the University of Buffalo . . . before the Association of American University Professors . . . referred to the 'exhibitionists' and 'mountebanks' in the academic world 'who to feed their own vanity, recklessly stake the profession's most precious and hard-won possession'." Baxter's remaining discussion of "the danger that the teacher will seek to impose his own political beliefs on his students" merits study...
...vaults in Great Britain. Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht, in London and Paris last week to take counsel and to call back exhortations to the Norse, announced that Norway had purchased for her stand in the north "huge quantities" of supplies and munitions from the British, enough grain to feed her soldiers for a year. Of Norway's six Army divisions of one month ago, four were gone-killed, captured or interned in Sweden. A fifth was decimated and scattered...