Word: devours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lower animals fight from a variety of causes.. Some fight because, as beasts of prey, they live by killing and devouring. Animals may fight their own kind in a tussle over a mate or some choice morsel of food. They fight to defend their young, their homes, or their own lives. Some are aggressive and go about seeking what they may devour; others fight as a last resort when they are cornered...
...Benny's slapstick comedy talents, matters are so arranged that he 1) is conked by sheaves of loose planks; 2) falls downstairs once; 3) falls through the floor twice; 4) falls down two different wells; 5) suffers a grand climax in which a horde of 17-year locusts devour him down to his underwear...
...enlightenment. Taking a leaf from, Goebbel's book, the men in Washington have climinated the bombast and the lies and have added accuracy, perception and historical depth. And, the resulting dose, of history is simple enough for the average attendant, Lone Ranger and Mickey Mouse not-withstanding, to savor, devour and digest...
...Vitamins may play an accessory role in the treatment of cancer. Patients with cancer of the stomach are unable to distribute vitamin A through the blood stream the way normal persons do. The cancer cells seem to devour the vitamin. Patients with leukemia, a cancer of the white blood cells, have a much higher amount of vitamin B1 in these cells than do normal persons. Conclusion: there may be a way to starve cancer cells by depriving them of the vitamins they especially need. Dr. Rhoads hinted at the startling discovery of a chemical which in the test tube strangles...
Since Cyrus Curtis' death (in 1933) main Ledger problem has been to support the paper in the style to which he had accustomed it. He had fed it by buying up other Philadelphia papers (the Evening Telegraph, Press, North American) for it to devour. His heirs found the meat bill was too costly. In 1933 Stepson-in-law John C. Martin sold the New York Post (for which Curtis had paid $1,620,000 in 1923) to J. David Stern. Two years later the Philadelphia Inquirer (cost, in 1930: $18,000,000) was sold to Moe Annenberg, famed...