Word: fecundating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would take a hen, however earnest and diligent, 240,000 years to lay as many eggs as a female oyster will toss into the water on a single midsummer day. No less splendidly fecund is the male who will presently fertilize this brood. A few weeks elapse, and upon some clean, hard rock begins the life-struggle of 60,000,000 infant oysters...
Stephenam Victor Joseph Noel Otto alias Otto Debeney, 29, jokester, took his own life in his native city of Brussels, last week, by leaping from the third story window of a dingy lodging house. Gallant and daring his spirit, fecund his imagination. In 1919, after deserting from the Belgian Army, he appeared in Coblenz dressed as a Belgian officer. Announcing himself as an emissary from King Albert, he decorated Major General Henry Tureman Allen, commander of U. S. forces in Germany, with the Belgian Military Medal of Honor and kissed him on both cheeks. The ceremony was performed before...
Fast Life. Better had this piece been called Slow Death. It is another from fecund Playsmith Samuel Shipman. The male party to a companionate marriage is accused of murdering a friend. It turned out that the real murderer was the son of the Governor, but this development was not permitted to have any effect until the unjustly accused was seated in the electric chair, a hood over his head...
...cowed Cabinet of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini met last week for the first time since he sensationally "rotated" (dismissed) Finance Minister Count Volpi and several other most distinguished statesmen (TIME, July 16, 23). "My ministers are rotated," explained Signor Mussolini to his ministers, "when each accomplishes a cycle of fecund activity. . . . The cycle of Count Volpi as Finance Minister was completed with the stabilization of the lira on a basis of gold. ... He has immortalized his name." The new Finance Minister, Senator Antonio Mosconi, a Venetian aristocrat, was next informed that he is expected to immortalize his name rounding...
There are only five vitamins known. Vitamin A stimulates body growth; Vitamin B prevents neuritis (beriberi is a characteristic disease following deprivation of this essential) ; Vitamin C prevents scurvy; Vitamin D prevents rickets; and Vitamin E must be present if an animal is to be fecund. All of these vitamins are extremely unstable chemical compounds. None of them has been definitively examined, yet their reactions on living animals are well-known and they can be isolated and handled as unseen principles...