Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, the land reform program, by all impartial accounts, was faring poorly for a simple basic reason: the root of China's farm problem is not maldistribution of land, but the fact that there is not enough land to feed the people as long as the land is worked by present methods, which will take years to change. For example, after land was redistributed in Honan province, the per capita holding was only six-tenths of an acre. Disillusionment over land reform had certainly given rise to much peasant resentment, contributed heavily to guerrilla activity, especially in south China...
...youth, Department Chairman Joshua Whatmough sought to learn a new language every summer to feed his interest in comparative philology. Few present-day concentrators try to duplicate this feat, but it would not be a bad idea, considering the knowledge of language needed for concentration in this field...
...Scan" gets more fresh news, has more original ideas, is better written, and certainly is more informative to the visiting reader than its competitor. Both papers ostensibly enjoy the competition but secretly wish their opponent would quit because there isn't enough advertising in the Smith community to feed two papers properly...
...which the food was served in plates, well cooked. There were waiters and an orchestra was available for music. Outside in the bitter cold, long lines of enlisted men stood in order to receive a little heated can of C-rations. Those long lines took three hours to feed...
Many deferment proposals came to the committees. For an instance, President Conant advocated a "feed-back" system developed by the Association of American Universities. This would defer a limited number of men for completion of their education, with all the rest going into service immediately. Those deferred would have to serve later, but this plan would keep colleges from being wrecked altogether when UMST first goes into operation, taking all healthy students into the army. The "feed-back" program would stop after the first few years of UMST, by then enough men would be coming back into civilian life...