Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lure of sunshine has brought California wealth. It has also brought her thousands of families who possess poverty, an old car, and a genial disposition to bask and wait for someone to feed them. Well-stocked with indigents of her own, California has tried unsuccessfully to discourage unwanted guests with hostile police, stingy charitarians, hard-work camps, even jail or embargoes at the State line...
...ground. Like the Braniff crash, the crack-up of a Northwest Airlines Lockheed near Miles City, Mont. Jan. 13 was due to mechanical failure. Last week CAA announced its apparent cause: a fire, originating in a floorboard compartment in the pilot's cabin through which passes the cross-feed emergency gasoline line between the two engines...
...sole territorial grab last week was Memel, in Lithuania, which was mere chicken feed for the acquisitive Nazis...
...came brilliantly of age, at the end of 1924, with Candida, she reveled in mediocre plays (The Green Hat, The Age of Innocence, Dishonored Lady) with fat, showy star parts. She complains that as the heroine of the vastly overrated The Barretts of Wimpole Street she did nothing but "feed" the rest of the cast-but as Elizabeth Barrett, in one of the longest parts ever written for the stage, she reclined on the most spotlighted sofa in theatrical history...
...bicycle every day until each was exhausted. The bicycle operated a dynamo which was connected with a number of electric lamps and a wattmeter which measured the amount of energy each subject was capable of expending. After about 30 days of this sort of thing, the scientists began to feed each cyclist daily glasses of chilled orange and lemon juice containing unflavored gelatin, made from the bones of animals. The men were given 60 grams (two ounces) of gelatin, the women 45 grams...