Word: feed
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Even ten cents will be gratefully received and will help nourish one of the starving. No matter, therefore, how restricted a student may be himself, he can contribute his mite to those who need it most. When well-off fellows reflect that the price of a theatre ticket will feed a little boy or girl in Vienna or Warsaw for a month, he can hardly doubt how to spend...
...paper over our breakfast coffee, it is hard to believe that in ten years time, at the present rate of consumption, the available supply of newsprint pulp will have been exhausted. Not only the leaders in national and state conservation tell us that the forests are being sacrificed to feed the hungry press at a rate of ten acres a day, but even the publishers themselves are beginning to admit the shortage that looms ahead...
...were at war it was highly desirable that as many town people as possible should be persuaded to cultivate war gardens. That was one means of adding a small margin to our food supply, to the end that a little more flour and meat could be spared to feed our friends across the ocean. Now that the war is over, the chief effect of daylight saving will be to enable town people to spend a little more time in self amusement...
...commerce, the motor truck has opened up great territories to business by means of good roads. Like arteries these highways now pulse with the flow of commerce which feed and strengthen the life blood of the nation. Airplanes will extend by their swiftness of travel, these commercial territories,--requiring only terminal landing fields instead of the expensive communicating highways. This means of communication will increase real estate values, save huge sums where time is money, and will multiply one resource of that nation that intelligently develop...
...cold weather starting; experiments made with a motor banked with snow, the air temperature being 11 degrees Fahrenheit, showed that an instantaneous start was made possible by the Fuelizer, perfect response to the throttle being gained in ten seconds. Another advantage is its automatic action; as the feed to the Fuelizer chamber is below the butterfly valve, suction through the pipe will be strong when the value is closed, as at low speeds, and will be less and less as the valve is opened and good running conditions result. Thus the Fuelizer helps when it is most needed...