Word: dropped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week a more scientific way of dealing with starfish was reported by Science Service from the U. S. Fisheries Biological Laboratory at Milford, Conn. The method, successfully tested in Long Island Sound, is to drop a barrage of quicklime through the water on the oyster beds. Quicklime, which is cheap and corrosive, eats holes in starfishes' skin, exposes their vitals, finally kills them. A quicklime bombardment of 480 lb. per acre of sea floor disposed of four starfish out of five. The chemical does no appreciable harm to the better-protected oysters, clams, crabs...
...oracles for interpretation: 1) At Galápagos, on shore leave, seamen from the Houston beheld two huge hawks swooping down upon a herd of wild goats. Each hawk seized a kid in its talons, started to flap away. Hurling stones at the hawks, the sailors made them drop the kids, which they took aboard the Houston as gifts for the U. S. Naval Academy...
...pointed beard and the Bohemian elegance of his clothes assisted his talent in making him the most popular teacher of his time. In the early 1900s, one of his favorite pupils was a spindly, silent young Philadelphian named Charles Sheeler. On seeing many a Sheeler sketch, the master would drop his beribboned eyeglasses and cry, "Don't touch it!", meaning that deliberation was bad for brilliance. If Charles Sheeler has proved anything in the past 40 years it is that his teacher was wrong on that point...
...told, the net for the second quarter averaged an estimated drop of 70% in corporate profits from a year ago. For the nation as a whole, the Department of Commerce reported last week, income was off 8% from the first half of 1937, to $30,630,000,000. Should income in the next six months keep this pace, the 1938 total of $61,000,000,000 will be only $8,000,000,000 less than 1937-a smaller drop than anticipated...
...Clipper could have dropped the oil to smooth the sea for an emergency landing, then drifted off out of sight of the Meigs. But at the end of the week, though army bombers and navy destroyers and submarines kept up the weary search, the subject in the minds of most airmen was closed. The Clipper was a 26-ton Martin 130, built for Pan American's transpacific route in 1935. Trim and seaworthy, she could ride out rough weather as easily as a small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small...