Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand for wheat for food in most countries is comparatively inelastic. In order to tap extensively the strata of elastic demand-for food in China, for example, for feed in many countries, and for industrial uses-prices cruelly low to wheat producers are necessary. Temporarily this may be inevitable...
Last week Mr. Tarn entered Blixtra in a six-furlong race at Aurora, Ill. with new hope. He had remembered that the Cubans told him to feed the horse pineapples. Pineapple-fed Blixtra dashed from the post at Aurora, came in four lengths ahead...
Bald eagles feed chiefly on carrion. Occasionally they snatch up water fowl, rabbits, fawns or lambs, or make the smarer, smaller osprey their catspaw for a fish diet. There is no authenticated case-even in Spring, when hungry eaglets are yammering in the eyries-of a bald eagle attacking the young of the animal who has made him National Bird...
...make the light boat carry his 200 Ib. No use fooling with imported spark plugs; good though they are for sprints, they seldom last more than one heat. Everything depended on the balance between the Miss Northwestern and her capital Evinrude motor; the way the gas tanks and extra feed lines were placed...
...mottled with green, like stained copper. They resemble living pieces of their cordilIcras lit by the sun setting over the Pacific. But they cannot look at the sun. It hurts their red and puffy eyes which can only peer into shadows for herbs, roots and grains on which to feed. When the dazzling sun disappears for the night, the gnomes chirk up. Pouty lips mumble rusticities into lumpish ears. The males creep forth to forage. The older females brew the night's potage. And gnats skitter across the moonbeams...