Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Northern Pacific Railroad, built by American Locomotive Co., the most powerful locomotive in the world will soon be completed. Generating 6,000 horsepower, it could pull, over a level track, a train two miles long. For its thirst it requires 14,400 gallons of water per hour; for its hunger, 20 tons of coal in the same period. Its firebox is the size of a portable garage. With its tender, it weighs one million pounds and is as long as half a city block. Designed chiefly for work on steep grades, it will haul across the Rockies trains that...
...seen New England asceticism buried under a pile of stuffed fowl and mince pies in such quantities as to flout the good taste of a Roman Emperor. Frigid godliness in its one attempt to appear human sank for a brief holiday a bit below the line that divides hunger from voracity, and this annual fall from grace has left its mark upon a more moderate posterity. For those who find a vestigeal interest in the intellectual slowly reviving this morning, the following lectures are recommended...
...those people expecting that colossal help. It is a donation to that country that my compatriots will never forget. I can see their mouths water - literally speaking, I've been hungry - when they read in big head lines that it was going to be distributed to apease their hunger and calm their anxiety. Now you think of their embarrassment when going to ask for a little food they are bruskely, insolently turned away. To substantiate the above I have in front of me a letter from my sister - one of the storms victims - which I will translate in part...
...HUNGER FIGHTERS-Paul de Kruif*-Harcourt Brace...
...monotonous scientific pursuits of Microbe Hunters Paul de Kruif found sensationalism enough to titivate a large public-he demonstrated fascination in the perverse antics of microbes, drama in the stolid heroism of hunters. More of the same, Hunger Fighters is a trustworthy though ebullient account of certain other men of science, unappreciated breeders of sturdy grain, students of cattle diseases, discoverers of fashionable vitamins. If the author coyly attributes an exasperated scientist with a few cusswords, or jazzes his pages with other self-conscious slang, it is but in his honest endeavor to educate a sugar-coated public. He makes...