Word: oxen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disused' automobile, fastened shafts to the axle, backed in a mule, went riding. Other farmers, unable to buy 23c gasoline with 7c cotton or $5 tires with n^ tobacco, did the same. Soon the roads of eastern North Carolina were overrun with similar vehicles pulled by mules, horses, oxen, goats or a pair of husky boys. North Carolinians, many of whom had been Hoovercrats in 1928, transposed two letters of the term, called their conveyances Hoovercarts...
...their best day's business in many a month?selling hay. Angry politicians had newsreel photographers barred, pleaded with Newshawk Roberts to publicize the carts as Depression Chariots. It was too late. Signs on the carts proclaimed: HOOVER GOT MY MULE, THE SPIRIT OF HOOVER. One drawn by two oxen announced: WE'LL GET THERE REGARDLESS OF HOOVER AND THIS AIN'T NO BULL. Goldsboro businessmen offered prizes to winners of chariot races, mulecart races, goatcart races; races of carts with pneumatic tires, carts with straw-stuffed tires, carts with no tires at all. A milling company that offered three...
...hard-ridden explorers. They thus proved what the Canadian Government had contended was unlikely-that Eskimos never passed north of Banks Island. The pleased pair now bore eastward toward Winter Harbor to see what might lie there. Near Winter Harbor they found three herds of musk oxen and an old Eskimo settlement. Reported Adventurer Verville: "These Eskimos have milk-white skins, except where their face and hands have become tanned and weather-beaten...
...weakness, loss of weight; tissue proteins and fats become converted to sugar to satisfy the body's needs, the patient is starved of carbohydrates. As a substitute for the body's insulin the patient is given injections of commercial insulin prepared from the pancreas of hogs or oxen. But to regulate the action of the insulin (i.e., prevent too great a reduction of blood sugar) a strict diet must be observed. The danger of insulin treatment is that the patient by relaxing his diet may get an hypoglycemic shock-break into a cold sweat, have convulsions, collapse. Unless...
...Rome. Almost all recent winners of the Prix de Rome have painted in the manner of Eugene Francis Savage. Finding little in their own time to interest them, "Little Savages" paint greenish, many-muscled nudes in extravagant attitudes before Italianate backgrounds of rolling hills, almond blossoms, firmly white Tuscan oxen...