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Word: eaten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into court certain characteristics which could not possibly have been developed by inherited experience, since the experience in question is fatal. Example: protective coloring in insects. If the coloring is defective and the insect is detected and devoured by preying birds, it cannot profit by the experience of being eaten or pass on any profit to any offspring. Only alternative is the neo-Darwinist conclusion that the insects which happen to have the most protective coloring will live longest and pass on their advantages to large numbers of offspring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stimulation, Exertion | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...successive Sundays, every family in the U. S. had a wild duck for dinner, the wild duck would be as extinct as the passenger pigeon. In 1886 the same number of U. S. citizens could not have extinguished the wild duck population if they had eaten duck for a fortnight. But ducks had already begun to decrease and it was in that year the Bureau of Biological Survey was created to study U. S. wild life. As the Bureau grew bigger, the U. S. game bird population grew smaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Money for Ducks | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...Evansville, Ind., Mrs. John Benham suspected that her dog Jerry had eaten up two $5 bills. By feeding Jerry liberal amounts of castor oil she retrieved the bills in fragments, patched them together, forwarded them to the U. S. Treasury at Washington for redemption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...book about catching huge fish by an author who neither prates of his own prowess nor rates all other quarry as paltry beside his own.* The quarry of Colonel Hugh D. Wise, U. S. Army retired, is sharks. He apologizes for this, admits that sharks are not generally eaten, do not leap when hooked and are not formally regarded as "game" fish. But they are "as strong as a mule and as hard to kill as a cat." They are handier and less expensive for ordinary mortals to hunt than most big-game fish; they are more plentiful, and destructive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Sharks | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

Jerome H. Dean may not have eaten an extra bowl of a special sort of cereal this morning, but the doughnuts and cheese of the Freshman Smoker must have agreed with the Great One. For the way he moved down the B. Bees yesterday afternoon was an indication that he was in the best of condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIZ LIKES DOUGHNUTS OF '40 SMOKE FOR FORTIFYING SELF | 5/6/1937 | See Source »

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