Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea that Lapps keep reindeer just as other people keep cows is ridiculous. Reindeer are still "wild"; the animals migrate regularly to their winter and summer feeding grounds, without asking anyone's permission, and because Laplanders live entirely upon reindeer, they have become nomads of necessity. Reindeer . . . feed themselves; and even when the snow is three feet deep, the animals dig holes in the snow and can be seen eating reindeer moss, standing on their heads with only their wagging tails visible...
...Brown Carran, the first schoolma'am of whom he has any recollection. As the train rolled on, Mrs. Carran settled down to tell her onetime pupil her troubles. These mostly concerned her son Charlie. Charlie was "going on 45." Charlie had no job. Charlie had six children to feed. Charlie was getting desperate and even threatening to vote the Democratic ticket. His mother just did not know what on earth could be done about Charlie. Last week President Hoover did something about Charlie-issued an executive order appointing Charles Carran a rural mail carrier out of West Branch...
...Next day the North Dakota Senate voted. 28-to-20, to publish his resolution in the Senate Journal. Cried Senator Bonzer: "This is a message to the East that North Dakota be recognized and have a place in the Union. The sons of the wild jackasses have gone without feed too long." Past moves toward Secession: 1803-04 - Disgruntled because the Louisiana Purchase had cost the New England Federalists their political power, Senator Timothy Pickering of Massachusetts led a campaign for secession of the New England States. New York and New Jersey...
...which the State could not supply fast enough, great though its progress has been. Result: a sullen, spontaneous, nation-wide "strike" by Soviet peasants who have refused (and in some instances have been unable) to grow grain in excess of their own needs which the State must have to feed Russia's cities...
...pigs must be returned to the Association when they have grown to 200 Ib. or more. The farmer then becomes half owner of the sow. With eight piglets saved from each litter, he should have a 12½-pig-per-sow return on his investment of care and feed...