Word: feeder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading league scorers, Arthur Page, clumsy but deadly in front of the enemy cage, Howie Mendel, dynamite southpaw wing whose shots have been dodged by the wrong kind of horseshoes all year, Tom Motley, team player, plugger, due for a big afternoon, Frank Harnden, long legged feeder of passes, are ready to swarm in the Yale secondary...
Drops of water trickling down a wooded hillside swell to a runnel, a rivulet, a brook, a creek, join the great feeder streams and then the long, smooth, thousand-mile slide of the Big River, widening to the Gulf. Down river cotton is king. Up north there is timber. "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns but at what a cost." The forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota slip down sluices to the tune of "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The Alleghenies are laid open in the quest for coal and ore. And the uncontrolled Mississippi...
...whose unique job it is to cook and prepare their food. Among the things the animals will eat during one year are: 1,600 frogs, 50 pounds of dried flies, 220 pounds of ant eggs, 1,300 chameleons, besides such usual food as carrots, beef, bananas, apples, grain. Daintiest feeder is the pigmy marmoset, which, for meat, eats only the smallest young lizards...
...competitive season draws to a close, standings on the House Tennis Ladder appear to be fairly decisive. Following is the order of the present standings: Donald Barker '38, Dudley H. Bradlee '38, Samuel L. Feeder '37, John C. Wood '39, Robert H. Sibley, Jr. '38, and John F. Dyer...
...owners considered it worthless. Idea for the stoker is supposed to have occurred to a greenhouse operator who got sick & tired of hopping out of bed to stoke his furnace on cold nights. The iron works had actually turned out a few crude stokers, using a feeder worm similar to that in a meat chopper. Several months after the iron works changed hands, inquiries began to straggle in from people who had seen the stoker in operation. Suddenly realizing they were missing a trick, the two contractors dusted off the old plans, developed an improved model along lines already laid...