Word: crawfished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have worked up a raging appetite flapping your way over New York grain fields, Pennsylvania coal fields, Virginia tobacco fields and Southern cotton fields. You sight the palm-tufted everglades, set your wings to plane down, and what does your watering beak encounter? Minnows, frogs, juicy bulbs, slimy, succulent crawfish? No. There are pipelines, dredges, real estate signs, empty cut-plug tins, discarded overalls, splintered flasks, old shoes, sapling orange, lemon, grapefruit trees, no water. Paradise has gone...
Cases of sex reversal in insects and crustaceans were cited by Prof. C. L. Turner, of Beloit College, who found that 88% of the female crawfish in a Wisconsin lake had developed male characteristics, possibly from disease. The recent work of Professor Crew of Edinburgh (TIME, Oct. 15) in controlling the sex of chickens is another case in point...