Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever since he first began to feed the squirrels in the Yard, and haunt the shades of Sever--not to mention other sanctuaries--the Student Vagabond has disliked the month of March. Notwithstanding its general accepted zoological aspects, this month has always seemed to him more or less a Sahara: nor do the prevalent examinations--leading educators are agreeing with the Vagabond that they are a bane--serve in any way to aid the desert in its traditional work of blossoming as the rose...
...spiked shoes, coaches' salaries were so costly that every other sport showed a deficit. Crew cost Yale the most, $65,618; the Gun Club, least expensive, was a $651 luxury. Visiting teams pocketed a third of the huge football monies. The rest went toward promoting adequate padding and feed for Yale athletes, toward athletic education, toward that potent plank in every college sales talk, "Athletics...
...starvation after the crops in Honan province had been destroyed by the great, classic flood of 1887-1889. So recently as 1925, Shantung (parched last summer) was inundated by a relatively slight overflow of the great Hwang Ho ("Yellow River") which none the less washed away crops sufficient to feed millions for a year...
...hours over seductive literature on "coral islands", "bright jewels of the West Indies",--average temperature 60 to 70 degrees. For science has decreed that sunshine like food is pernicious by its absence. Flowers fade and wither away, children get rickety, and the Harvard Club of Boston installs machinery to feed its sunshine-hungry members. Not of least interest is the biological study which accompanied this announcement. The photographer has caught all the intimate charm which must surround the acquisition of sunburn without the inconvenience of sand in ones hair and ears...
...South is an ideal dairying area since green feed can be had during ten months of the year, and by proper rotation of crops, green feed may be had in the other two months also. This factor especially fits the cheese industry, since grass-milk cheese is considered best. . . . "Farmers generally are just beginning to appreciate the fact that the dairy business is the most stable business in which they can engage. Present outlook indicates that in 1928 the dairy business of this country will receive its greatest impetus. The national consumption of cheese is increasing at the annual rate...