Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finland was another matter. If the Germans go home through Sweden, the laws of neutrality demand that the Swedes intern them. The Swedes would also have to feed them. There are an estimated 100,000 Germans in Finland (and northern Norway), and Sweden has no food to spare...
...Baby. War cut racing to one day a week and ended the crowds of 90,000 that White City once knew. But it completely ruined horse racing, mainly by shortages of feed and transportation, and the dogs had it all to themselves. Backed by tradition and country-wide appeal, horse racing may some day become the national sport again. But dog-race promoters think the dogs will give the horses a close race...
...took the prospector to the banks of the Manyanda River, north of Bulawayo. There, on high ground where elephants feed and the waters divide to flow toward the Zambesi and the "great, grey-green, greasy Limpopo River," the rain-goddess showed the prospector a great stone. She rolled away the stone, and entered the cave of Lobengula. With the rain-goddess and the prospector was a Matabele named Ginyilitshe. The desecration of the cave filled Ginyilitshe with fear, and he ran straightway to Bulawayo, to a white man trusted by the Matabele: Arthur Huxtable, District Commissioner for Native Affairs...
...family, is at last able to explain to them the curio which has long adorned their mantelpiece - "Professor Caswell tells me this damn thing happens to be a Ubangi symbol of fertility." Another woebegone figure, a chicken farmer, is discovering the literal truth of the description on his chicken feed, "Lay or Bust." The stubborn hens are exploding all over the place. There is an angry hound who, with a great ripping of one pants leg, yanks a man into a room where two ladies are seated ("I divorced him years ago, but our retriever keeps bringing him back...
...boats. He planned an endless chain, run by water power, along the Erie Canal. He got Governor Clinton's approval, and set up an experimental unit that pulled a boat eight miles an hour against the current of the East River. But farmers along the canal, who sold feed to the tow mules, refused to permit the chain to be installed...