Word: devouring
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...than merely get himself around the streets of another country. He can communicate intelligently with a foreigner and read his literature. The number of French works in the original read by American students is infinitessimal compared to the hordes of untranslated good American novels and non-fiction Dutch students devour...
Kemal went on a speaking tour among his people: "Remain yourselves, but take from the West that which is indispensable to the life of a developed people. Let science and new ideas come in freely. If you don't, they will devour...
...complex aircraft, machine-tool and chemical industries. But last week the Trades Union Congress (183 unions, 8,000,000 members) staged a counterattack. Keynoted Chairman Tom O'Brien: "The British trades union movement created the Labor Party, and if the child thinks it is going to devour the father, it must be told there is nothing doing...
...them learns to extract energy from the sunlight, releasing oxygen into the air and absorbing carbon compounds. When these living forms-the first plants-have multiplied for a few million years, they create the oxygen-rich atmosphere that the earth now knows. Then oxygen-breathing plant-eaters evolve to devour the plants, and the full stream ot evolution is under...
...reputation of never making a mistake. But in phagocytosis, it was thought, nothing impressive remained to be discovered. Dr. Wood has impressed his colleagues even here. He has learned much never known before about the way white blood cells corner a group of disease-causing bacteria and eventually devour them. He has succeeded in making micro-photographs and movies of the process, and has described it in English that any intelligent layman can understand. Introducing Dr. Wood in Manhattan last December, the Rockefeller Institute's famed Microbiologist Rene Dubos remarked dryly that even in phagocytosis, Barry Wood has lived...