Word: devouring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first issue of the "Tiger" appeared in March, 1882, and elicited the following editorial comment from the "Harvard Daily Herald", which then held the position of regular University news organ: "A screaming 'Tiger', going about seeking whom it may devour, has made its appearance in the college world, starting out from the savage jungles of Princeton to seek its fortune. Lampy and the lbis have each donned a roomy pair of boots, and now employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces...
...Story.† Serafino Gubbio serves a black, knock-kneed spider. Daily he whets its appetite with coils of transparent membrane. Not knowing why, creatures come near and sacrifice their real selves to the spider. Serafino Gubbio helps the spider devour them. Not long afterwards, myriad people issue from dark places where, seeking pleasure, they have seen the ghosts made by the spider. Relieved to be out again, they say, "What terrible rot!" Serafino Gubbio is a cinematograph operator for a big company near Rome...
...high. Also, a pigmy mouse-bumble-bee size. From Brazil, George K. Cherrie in command of the Field Museum's expedition (which includes Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton-TIME, July 5) announced that a wolf-spider had been taken, so enormous that it could capture and devour small birds. The hunters, of whom Mrs. Field was not least active and able, had also taken glass snakes (lizards with rudimentary feet); millipedes; and a rare species of mouse opossum, tiny marsupial (pouched mammal) only 5 in. long when mature...
...many eggs did one Ansell of Harvard devour at one sitting? (See MISCELLANY...
...write about music in terms of color, painting in the idiom of sound. They have pleasantly conjectured how Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would taste if the listener's auditory nerves were transferred to his lips; what sort of noise a banana would make did the observer devour it with his ears. Last week Harry Grindell-Matthews, British inventor of the "death-ray" (TIME, June 2 & 9, 1924, SCIENCE), demonstrated certain devices with which he had turned theoretical flippancies of the dilettanti into mechanical realism. It is of course an impossibility to rearrange the human nervous system so that...