Word: eating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived in Australia three years and have seen five koalas. Four that lived in a chicken coop in a backyard in Melbourne and one wild one. The wild one cried and when given some leaves to eat wanted to play. I gave it a finger and it bit me as hard as a newborn lamb can bite...
...common sights to the summer vacationists at Phillip Island. They are protected by law and heavy fines are imposed upon anyone who harms them. In the daytime the Joey leads a rather somnolent existence, remaining comfortably curled up in a gum tree notch. At night they move about and eat the tender eucalyptus shoots which are their only food. Often, after dark, their heart-rending cry can be heard through the bush. A wail which is the very essence of anguish as a distraught mother seeks her lost offspring...
...75th birthday, at Yellow Springs, Ohio's onetime Senator Simeon Davison Fess proudly showed newshawks a stack of firewood he had sawed, said he was still working on his four-volume history of Ohio. Exulted he: "I work every day, sleep like a deer, eat like a bear...
...they do not cure. They are simply "useful adjuncts" to good food and plenty of vitamins. Just as useful as chaulmoogra oil, upon which hopes have risen high, is "any kind of counterirritant. Acids painted on the leper's body sometimes cause the cells to react, multiply, and eat up the bacilli...
...Leprosy will have disappeared before Science finds a cure for it," says Dr. Muir. All that is necessary to stamp it out is to prevent contagion by segregating lepers and removing children from leprous parents, see that the general population has enough to eat and keeps clean...