Word: breeds
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Eels, the only freshwater dwellers that descend to salt water to breed, are caught in great numbers and sizes (up to 8 ft., 3 in. for congers) as they go to sea in the autumn but the specimens are never sexually ripe. Sea dredging has hitherto brought to light no eel eggs, which are evidently laid at great depths. Laboratory observations have proved that eels spawn but once, dying immediately afterwards. All that ever comes back from the depths are transparent baby eels about 2 in. long, with which harbors and rivers teem in the spring. Before spawning, matured eels...
...contemporaries and to us that assert their right to be treated fully. And it is surprising to read this book and reflect that it was written by an old man, a professional politician; even in translation it is a sweeping, rhythmic picture. American politicians must be a different breed; young and vigorous, they neither think nor write so well. The jacket hints that the whole book may be a spiritual biography of Clemenceau himself--which is something for the Tiger and no one else to decide. And, however that may be, the situation in Greece during the Macedonian invasions...
...Lampoon stands too often in its own shade to need the help of such a sapling, there is a limit to vandalism and that, in the philodendronic sense, is the bark or outer periphery of an Ibis tree. The poor old Ibis has done enough to hurt her breed in the last few days without becoming dispossessed of her perch upon the Ibis bough. Unlike Horace who was quite selfish when his famous tree fell, the CRIMSON worries more about the tree than the fact that its fall hurt no one but the reputation of him, who in the dark...
...Cushman 61 WELD 1-13--G. S. Murphy 5 14-27--M. C. Stevens 18 28-39--A. T. Child 39 40-57--A. T. Coyle 52 APLEY COURT Entire--G. C. Dreyfus 42 APTHORP Entire--E. T. Clapp 69 CLAVERLY 1-11--N. P. Breed 11 12-22--R. B. Covel 24 23-33--H. I. Cobb 82 34-44--H. L. Clarke 37 45-55--W. A. Clementson 56 DANA 1-34--M. W. Ellis 31 35-49--W. M. Dow 46 DUNSTER 14-24--G. J. Cleary 19 25-41--E. U. Denison...
...decayed and blown to the earth's ends; in their author's figure, the pillars of their temple have crumbled, the roof crashed. Their tragedy is that Daniel, who alone had increase, devoted more attention to the altitude of his pile than to the soundness of his breed...