Word: meat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With its morale strengthened by the rout of Huntington on Wednesday, the 1927 baseball team will meat the Dean Academy nine at 3 o'clock this afternoon on the Freshman Diamond. The Crimson will put its full strength on the field and with Gates on the mound, should be ready to make the visitors go the limit...
Last week the Department explained that meat consumption in the U. S. increased from 143.9 Ibs. per capita in 1921 to 149.7 Ibs. in 1922, to 167 Ibs. in 1923-and that five-sixths of the extra meat consumed was pork, pork being now 54% of the meat diet of the world's greatest meat-eating nation...
...easy to grasp the real magnitude of the meat producing industry in the United States, but a comparison may help to show how inconceivable it is. ... Suppose we have the 81,532,600 hogs slaughtered last year in a single drove. Allowing four feet as the length of a hog, in single file they would string out for 61,770 miles, or twice around the world at the equator with enough left over to reach from the North Pole to the southern end of South America. This same great drove would stand 21 abreast from New York to San Francisco...
...South Sea crabs which climb cocoanut trees at night, cut down the nuts with their shears and come down to eat the meat of the nuts which have burst in falling. The planters are compelled to protect their trees with collars of tin about six inches wide, on which the crabs cannot get a foothold...
...background of the fight was the great nation of Argentinians vicariously lustive fer meat for their prize bull. They had insisted on U.. S. meat. A broker produced Farmer Lodge. The combination name was genuinely United States. It had an official sound. The Argentine populace clapped its hands: "A Senator's grandson* is not too good for our bull...