Word: milked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best combination of picture and text, to Mrs. Erma Perham Proetz of the Gardner Advertising agency of St. Louis, for a "Pet Milk" ad. The artist was Andrew Loomis of Chicago...
...mathematical data to be significant to scientists. He describes briefly experiments which show that a white rat, a pumpkin, the new tail of a tadpole (when the first tail is cut off), a colony of yeast cells in a sugar solution, a colony of fruit flies in a milk bottle, grow in the same way as the populations of countries according to their census counts. That is, the rate of growth is slow at first, becomes rapidly faster and faster, and then after a time gradually becomes slower and slower...
...first annexed by National Food Products. Already the new corporation claims an investment of $4,500,000, but not control, in 12 systems operating 2,000 stores in 20 states. Among these chains: the H. C. Bohack Co. (300 stores, chiefly in Brooklyn); James Butler Inc.; Borden Milk Co.; U. S. Stores Corporation (1,050 grocery and meat stores in 12 states); David Pender Grocery Co. (Virginia); First National Stores, Inc. (Boston); U. S. Dairy Products Corporation; Reid Ice Cream Corporation; Abbotts-Alderney Dairies, Inc. (Philadelphia); Detroit Creamery Co. Packing plants and bakeries will be added to this list...
...used in this connection, are, to put it mildly, as Mark Twain said of the reports of his own death, perhaps a trifle exaggerated. If, to quote an old English proverb: 'Soft words butter no parsnips,' neither are hard words milch cows from which we extract the milk of human kindness...
Germany at Armistice Time. "Our men are sallow, anemic, enfeebled; our weary women's skin is loose and wrinkled, like the leather of unlubricated machinery belting. The children, brought up without milk, wither away. . . . Thus we have lived for years...