Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no doubt that sea lions eat a few salmon, damage a few nets. But the California Fish & Game Commission now believes that they do much more good than harm because they eat valueless and destructive fish such as morays, squid, octopi, dogfish, deepwater crabs. The Commission also believes that there are enough natural checks to keep sea lions from, increasing too fast. It takes six weeks for the pups to learn to swim, and many are drowned before they learn. Others are trampled to death by careless parents. Killer whales and sharks eat sea lions young...
However, I have always imagined a contest with a shark as not so much a tug of war, as a free-for-all catch-as-catch-can, with no holds barred. And while we humans may have the ability to outpull a shark, the soft, creamy foods we eat have resulted in our being somewhat less than a match for him, dentally...
...every sense of the word Rightists were anxious to make hay last week. Harvest time was almost at hand, and neither army will eat this autumn unless the barns are filled in the next few weeks. Reliable reports, too, had it that Rightist Franco's German and Italian backers were giving him his last chance, knowing that the Spanish adventure has become intensely unpopular with humble citizens in Germany and Italy...
...hire two movie-house orchestras for its theatres in each of New York's five boroughs. By the time they had seen the fifth run of the Palace's double feature, many of Local 802 were asleep. Others massed in the men's room to eat, smoke and converse. Somebody connected with the theatre turned off a water-cooler. A musician called up the Board of Health and had it turned back on. RKO, however, made no promises. At 2:45 a. m. most of the musicians had gone home...
...Eat (Twentieth Century-Fox): Jack Haley singing, Rochelle Hudson dancing, Eugene Pallette drinking, Arthur Treacher butling...