Word: hunger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week eleven-year-old Grant Taylor Jr. had saved some apples from his school lunch. Going by the Hunter's Inn he went into the yard and tossed an apple to Saucer, the she bear. He tossed another to Cup. In hunger or jealousy, Saucer lunged to get Cup's apple too. Her worn chain snapped...
...Psychology department maintains a zoo on the top floor of Boylston Hall for the purpose of research into the nature of hunger and reactions of animals to various conditions of light and situation. About 200 rats, 15 cats and kittens, a pair of squirrels, and about 40 salamanders are regularly kept and a pair of monkeys have recently been added to the collection. There is also a moth eaten stuffed tiger whose tail is falling off, that was, according to one of the professors, rescued from the rubbish heap of the University museum and is now used...
Even the Eliot House Night Lunch, which caters to the hunger but not the thirst of the College between the hours of 10 P. M. and 1 A. M., will probably confine itself to cracked...
...before getting the dose. This sluggard's prodding has been kept up for three months with no ascertainable discomfort or injury to the people experimented on. An equivalent dosage of thyroid gland, another dissipator of indolence, would have made the experimentees irritable. Dinitrophenol caused no nervousness, anxiety, trembling, hunger or palpitation. It raised neither temperature, respiration nor pulse...
...civilian aspects of the War are, if anything, more pathetic than the military-war crowds in London, Berlin and Paris (all looking very much alike), whole villages of refugees, white-hooded orphans. Hunger is a primary theme behind the lines. One picture shows five old crones poking into a Berlin garbage dump. Another, the most cruel in the whole collection, exhibits a young Russian girl, her naked body shriveled and deformed by famine...