Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fascism's vast project of land reclamation. As an engineer, the Prince, trained in the U. S. for such work, was gripped and fascinated by the political concept of Benito Mussolini: an Italy so developed by land reclamation that for the first time in modern history she could feed herself...
About that time (1924) Dr. Minot learned from Dr. Whipple, who soon became "my closest friend," about the effect of liver on secondary anemia. So with some confidence and Dr. Murphy's constant help, Dr. Minot began to feed pernicious anemics with liver. The results were too miraculous for hasty announcement. Drs. Minot and Murphy, with proper salute to Dr. Whipple, made their formal announcement...
Yale College fraternity houses have never bedded their members, a decade ago were not equipped to feed all of them. Scattered among New Haven boarding houses, fraternity brothers gathered only at weekly meetings. It was chiefly to draw brothers together at the dining table that the fraternities in the late 1920s canvassed their alumni, put up fine new houses at prices ranging from $150,000 to $250,000, most with sizeable mortgages. The university administration beamed on this move toward a warmer campus social life...
...Justice's desk lay Mrs. Vanderbilt's petition for a writ of habeas corpus to compel Mrs. Whitney to surrender Gloria. Week before, charged Mrs. Vanderbilt, "The child said she wanted to go to Central Park with her nurse to feed the pigeons. . . . Shortly thereafter she was spirited out of the house by said nurse, Emma Keislich, without being brought back to your petitioner to say goodby. . . . The nurse took the infant to Mrs. Whitney's home and the infant has been confined and detained there ever since against the will and consent of your petitioner...
...killed there. Later as a student of mathematics he made such a reputation that the Sultan made him his astronomer. In his crude observatory Omar revamped the calendar, indulged in heretical speculations about the nature of the universe, tossed off unconsidered little rubai (quatrains) when he felt off his feed. A tragic love affair turned him from an ambitious scientist into a world-weary philosopher. Riches and power were heaped on him by the Sultan, who took his soothsaying advice as gospel, but Omar was not much upset when his royal patron died and took his favor with him. Immediately...