Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, though Rockefeller intended to spend more than $20,000,000 on worldwide schemes, his Brazilian beginnings were modest. Of three initial projects, one was philanthropic, two were commercial, with a total investment at first of around $750,000. For philanthropy he proposed to expand a pet wartime project of the Coordinator's Office that, in an effort to improve nutrition, taught starch-and-bean-fed Brazilians to eat salads, and "stimulated" farmers to start growing fresh vegetables...
Education for All. In 1926, while teaching education at St. F.X., he decided to put some pet theories into practice. He sold Margaree townsfolk on the idea of a big new school. They raised the money for materials, built the school with free labor. Then Dr. Coady turned to the adults. He organized a study club, explained the co-op way of doing things. Out of that came the Margaree Producers' Association of 30 members...
...editors are Paul Evans, executive editor of the Mitchell Daily Republic in South Dakota where he covers a lot of territory; and Ernest Linford who was raised on a Wyoming ranch and is editor of the Laramie Republican Boomerang. Bill Nye founded this paper and named it for his pet mule. Linford left the mule home but brought...
After ten days of reading the heavy brainwork of fifty Harvard entrants, Miss Irene Tinker, Radcliffe '49, said in a small voice last night that entries for the contest to name her pet project, an unborn literary magazine for 'Cliffedwellers, were now officially closed...
...pet hate, modern art, gets both barrels: "You don't need a guide to explain Sargent's portrait of Marquand or Whistler's Mother. . . . But what do you need beginning with Manet's Olympia through Nude Descending the Staircase ... to the present-day Portrait of a Vacuum Cleaner having its Tonsils removed or Salad Bowl full of Left Ears? I feel that you need the Yale Bowl to be sick...