Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haven't found a dead one yet," said Mr. Peyser proudly. "And it's cold in here, too. It's all in knowing how to feed 'em. I don't give 'em too much and I don't give 'em too little...
...Colporteur Szoke spends most of his time in the restaurants and cafes of Budapest. Let us hasten to add that he does not go there to be fed, but to feed others with the Word of God." In Turkey, Armenian Colporteur Mihran Balian "tells of a Turk who was heard crying out with a loud voice in the midst of a large crowd: 'May this Society live long! What a philanthropic Society! It is not concerned at all with politics and supplies the people with books at cheap rates...
Whispering reporters discovered that a "spatfall" is a crop of oysters larvae; that the slipper limpet, a small marine gastropod mollusk with only one valve, dearly loves to feed on the tender young of British oysters...
Each day the bakery turns out 125 dozen muffins, 200 dozen cookies, 200 pounds of cake, 40 to 50 large pans of pudding, 250 leaves of French bread, 175 dozen rolls, and when a popular dessert such as apple pie is to be baked, it takes 250 pies to feed the College. All fillings for pies, and sauces for puddings are made in the bakery, although in the case of sauces and whipped cream, the ingredients are sent along separately to the individual kitchens, where they are mixed...
...some experience I had with frogs when I was a boy. My father owned an immense dirt tank or pond as you call it in the North. There were frogs of many sizes in this pond and I liked to look at them. One day I began to feed a small frog and he was soon so gentle I could pat him on the back. He was not much larger than a walnut. Then I decided to get a size larger frog and after I gentled him I got a size still larger. I kept on at this until...