Word: bites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ease of unemployment. Last week Eng land learned that the dole brought its own disease. To many a workman, suddenly jobless, mental deterioration comes swiftly. For a few days he enjoys his leisure. Then comes restlessness. He walks the streets, goes home to pace his floor, bite his nails, throw things at his wife. Gradually this energy wears itself out. He stops shaving, becomes dirty, slovenly, sodden. He looks at the world out of dull, defeated eyes. For this con dition psychologists have a new term : un employment shock...
Upon their backs to bite...
Close to the fleas' infinitum are the phages which Dr. Felix d'Hrelle, professor of protobiology at Yale, described last week to the Society of American Bacteriologists at Baltimore. Phages behave as though they bite germs...
...materially affect the ship's performance. The $25,000 penalty provided for that overweight will not be collected by the Navy. As for speed, Designer Arnstein and Commander Rosendahl declared there was no doubt the fault would be remedied by the new propellers which will take a "bigger bite" of the air. But the builder may be penalized for the shortcoming...
...summary of the 150-pound game: HARVARD ANDOVER Sise, l.e. r.e., H. L. Lowe Dryer, Beaumont, Herman, l.t. r.t., Frye Ginsberg, Brooks, l.g. r.g., Sears Shelden, c. c., Dwyer Adams, Uhiselder, r.g. l.g., R. H. Lowe, Dean Balch, Holden, r.t. l.t., Bite McTigue, Lawrence, Brown, r.e. l.e., MacWilliams Dearborn, Tasman, q.b. q.b., Bates, Clark Gallagher, l.h.b. r.h.b., Off Corcoran, Roorbach, r.h.b. l.h.b., Miller Tucker, Churchill, f.b. f.b., Johnson...