Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another experimenter with Daphnia is Professor Arthur Mangun Banta of Brown University. Dr. Banta has found that the average water flea which has all it wants to eat from birth lives 29 days. But if the flea is starved in its youth, given an ample ditt in maturity, it lives 42 to 51 days, growing and maintaining vigor and reproductivity throughout that long life...
...Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday-are examined with an understanding gained from Hemingway's studies of later desperadoes. They emerge as quick on the trigger as ever, but hard-up instead of heroic, dissatisfied, bewildered, trapped. Although they start shooting at the hint of an insult, they, too, eat dirt, have their human share of humiliations in the pursuit of women and wealth...
...swung down the platform to his car, and handed his valise to the porter. Examinations weren't so bad after all, be thought, but the best thing about them was their end. Might as well slip into the diner now, before it gets crowded, and get a bite to eat. Hmm! Not very hungry though, in spite of the work he'd been doing lately. Exams seem to take it out on your nervous system, more than anything else. Guess he'd let it go at a club sandwich, and fortify himself with something else later on in the afternoon...
...invited by Sanka Coffee to have it speak on their We, the People radio program. At the broadcast, female chimpanzee Susan, proud in a man's grey business suit and huge napping basketball shoes, sat by in a chair munching grapes, while Mrs. Lintz told what apes eat, why they beat their chests. Then she turned to Susan, hopefully said: "Who-who? who-who?" Susan looked up from her grapes, said, "Who-who," and went back to her grapes again...
Snake: Wait a minute. It won't work. Adam'll never eat that forbidden apple...