Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...directors of the Hall have posted conspicuously warnings to all men entering the gallery to remove their hats,- warnings which are indirectly insults to the visitors and slurs on our manners. They are a kind of "Beware-the-dog" sign, warning those who come "to see the animals feed" not to rouse those animals...
...life:" Booth, pp. 85, 252.- (b) Such spiritual motives generally lacking in ordinary methods of poor relief.- (1) The Poor Law Guardian is mostly a dispenser of material help-money, food, shelter, etc.- (c) The spiritual incentives to better lives are given by the Salvation Army.- (1) They feed not only the body but the soul...
Scattered along the shore are small hills, covered with a stunted growth of trees, or left entirely bare; behind these, marshes have grown through which the sea sends tide streams. These marshes, in the days of the early settlers, were the hay fields, and even now cattle feed upon them. Upon a marsh the new part of Boston has been built and in other adjacent places attempts are being made to use this marshy land...
...England reptiles include the tortoises, snakes and batracians but there are no lizards or crocodiles. There are about ten different species, of batrachians of which the largest is a kind of salamander. These creatures feed on animal food and lay their eggs in the water...
Even in the time of Jesus hunger was a very real evil, but it is now a thousand times worse. There are in New York multitudes of men who can not get enough to feed their families. By starvation and poverty they are driven to desperation and when desperate the are dangerous to the community. To remedy the evil of their situation something must be done which no careless charity can do. Giving a man money that he has not earned only pushes him farther down the scale of manhood and makes the struggle to get up all the harder...