Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...site is a giant feed lot in central Florida where 20,000 cattle at a time are fattened. Their droppings will be placed into fermenter tanks filled with thermophilic (heat-loving) bacteria. As the bacteria ingest the manure at a temperature of 120°, they give off a gas that is 65% methane. Donald D. Kaplan, owner of the feed lot, says that the project is expected to provide enough fuel for all his own operations, which include a feed mill, packing house and rendering plant -with "enough left over to supply a good part of the city of Bartow...
...classics ("Mount Olympus is the home of the Norse gods. True or false?") and has her pupils-who include her own eight-year-old daughter-memorize poems and Latin vocabulary. "Who can say that the classics are too hard for eight-year-olds?" she argues. "Why spoon-feed them until they choke on an overdose of boredom...
...open the first component of a proposed $50 million combined communications school and university next fall. The Yale Law graduate, son of Virginia's late U.S. Senator Willis A. Robertson, recently inaugurated a new satellite transmitter?the first one to be owned by an independent TV producer ?to feed various Gospel programs simultaneously to the four CBN-owned channels and 130 other stations at an annual cost of $20 million. Pentecostalist Robertson also acts as host on the 700 Club, seen daily by millions...
Some critics claim that the only cook who really needs a food processor is one who must feed a dozen lumberjacks three times a day. Others say they actively enjoy chopping and slicing. But James Beard, an early convert to the processor-and co-editor of a recipe book distributed with the Cuisinart-scoffs at "kitchen snobs who will not accept modern technological perfections. I'm perfectly certain were Escoffier or Montagne alive today, they would be happy to use a food processor." Indeed, many serious cooks say that short of a Bocuse in a bottle, the best friend...
...early November, the users' bins were overflowing with 150.1 million tons of coal that had been stockpiled in anticipation of a strike. Electric utilities held a 90-day supply, and they could switch to oil-fired reserve boilers when that is gone. Steel mills had enough coal to feed their coke ovens for 50 days, and major industrial users had a 44-day stockpile...