Word: eating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eat Bug. Every place that is favorable for the growth of micro-organisms (and most places are) is a churning battleground of small, fierce creatures. A pinch of moist soil weighing one gram, for instance, may contain more bacteria (up to 2 billion) than there are people on earth. Among the ordinary creatures prowl savage protozoa engulfing them one by one. There is an underworld, too, made up of submicroscopic viruses, hardly more than big molecules, which often invade the larger organisms and multiply explosively...
...despite the fact Princeton men are eating an ersatz Howard Johnson's at Commons, they generally fare better than their Harvard brethren. For fifty cents less per term, the Tigers eat family style off plastic plates, not navy trays. The food is rushed out directly from the kitchen, and is usually at least at room temperature...
...compared with Harvard's "all you can eat" policy, Princeton offers milk only twice a day and does not allow seconds on meat. But Princetonians who feel they are being starved into submission frequently bluff their way into two different dining halls during a meal-a practice which both University and Howard Johnson's ignore. Unlike the name checking system at Harvard, a Commons identification card is used at Princeton...
...around, drink tea and eat crackers and caviar," according to Alexander Ogloblin '51, president of the organization. He explained yesterday the club is for study of the Russian languages. It is neither political nor ideological...
...their wild state, says Moncrieff in the current issue of Discovery, moths did not eat wool. Their larvae ate dead animals on which the females deposited their small white eggs. But as soon as man started to make woolen clothes, many thousands of years ago, some moths began to change their feeding habits. With a good deal of difficulty, says Moncrieff, they learned to digest wool, have not yet completely adapted themselves to their unnatural diet. Researchers have proved that moth larvae grow faster when fed on fish meal or casein, and that unless they get vitamin B they never...