Word: eats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MacBride, however, this does not show that habits acquired by an individual in adapting itself to new circumstances may not be inherited. Lately he reported on habit transmission in the British stick-insect. This creature feeds exclusively on privet, but on the verge of starvation will eat ivy. Dr. MacBride and his associates starved a number of the insects until they ate ivy, then tested succeeding generations. Of the parents only 10% would eat ivy in the first two days, but 80% of the offspring ate it in the same period, although they were isolated from birth and hence removed...
Luncheon will be served to the commuters at Dudley Hall from 12 to 1.30 o'clock on week days. A group of six tutors from the Faculty will be appointed regular members of the non-resident center and will eat luncheon in the building. Service will be conducted in cafeteria style, the dishes being priced at not more than five or ten costs an item and including sandwiches, fruit, dessert, and one hot plate...
Luncheon will be served to the commuters at Dudley Hall from 12 to 1.30 o'clock on week days. A group of six tutors from the Faculty will be appointed regular members of the non-resident center and will eat luncheon in the building. Service will be conducted in cafeteria style, the dishes being priced at not more than five or ten cents an item and including sandwiches, fruit, dessert, and one hot plate...
...route from charcoal by the Fiat system. Two days after the Cabinet meeting Italian motorists found that the price of gasoline had doubled to 87? per gal. Only cheerful sound from the Cabinet board was an announcement that "particularly abundant wheat and rice" crops ensure Italians plenty to eat this winter. Fearing possible blockades, Italian Gorgonzola shippers wired British customers last week to order all their supplies for the next few months in advance...
...sands, "saturated with sunshine," looked as if they had been covered with crimson silk. They hunted panther and ostrich, saw gazelles, outrode a prolonged sandstorm that nearly killed them all. Carl Raswan studied desert customs, developed an affection for the noble, helpless, panicky, good-natured camel, learned to eat locust, which he liked roasted but not boiled...