Word: bananas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussing the problem. Professor Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins University describes an experiment which he conducted with a pint milk-bottle, a supply of yeast and banana agar, and about a dozen flies (genus ). The food supply of yeast and banana agar was put it the bottom of the bottle and then the flies were enclosed, and the whole kept at a uniform temperature for about fifty days. During this time the flies multiplied so that the milk bottle--representing the United States--could not hold them all, nor the food supply give sufficient nourishment. The population, so to speak...
...Americas time and again where a steady hand has been needed to keep the political cauldrom from upsetting. In Hali despite vague of "American actroties". It is generally admitted that the island has settled down to a prosperity unknown before American occupation. In others of the small "banana" republics, as O. Henry loved to describe, the more proscuce of a cool, giver American destroyer slipping into the harbor has completely discussed inciptent fire cracker revolutions...
...would you feel rooting for the "Fighting Banana Slugs...