Word: littering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond straightens up the litter of papers which bestrew his desk, tills his briar with a fresh load of Cake Box and settles back to watch the smoke sail up until the first pale faint pulse of dawn beats into the eastern...
...many years Founder C. A. Taylor and his Farm Life made money. Many a farm implement, fertilizer, chicken brood, hog litter was advertised in its pages. When circulation reached 750,000, Founder Taylor became even more ambitious. "We can have 1,000,000 circulation," said he. Highly-paid salesmen solicited subscriptions. Premiums were offered. A million circulation for Farm Life became a civic goal in Spencer. At last the goal was reached, passed. Farm Life had 1,115,000 subscribers listed...
...sprawly rustic building known as the Casino. Last week the Casino appeared likely to become an issue in New York City politics-a class war issue between Democracy and Aristocracy. The Casino belongs to the city. It was built as an eating place to offset, in a measure, the litter caused by basket parties on the lawns. Recently the city leased the place to a $500,000 private corporation which undertook to make it a "place for the fashionable and fastidious." The rental was $8,500 per year. The corporation sold the hat-check privilege alone for $12,000. Joseph...
More than two years ago, three doctors of the Harvard Medical School did a weird deed which they saw fit to keep secret until last week. Two female English bulldog litter mates were received in the Harvard laboratory. They were observed and found to grow normally. After a month a needle was thrust daily into the belly region of the slightly smaller dog, injecting anterior-lobe extract of cattle's pituitary glands. Daily the doctors compared their specimens. In a month the smaller puppy had begun to grow faster than the larger one. Soon the smaller puppy...
...next year came a scorching day. In the morning, as usual, the dogs scampered and trotted out on the laboratory roof. Toward the end of the afternoon the doctors were summoned and there in the sunshine lay a monstrous dead bulldog, by now twice the weight of her litter mate, a dog fit for baying at enormous moons. In the burning heat her heart and lungs had failed to function for her abnormal, pituitarily overgrown body. Dead though she was, however, she had proved it possible to grow giants in a laboratory...