Word: forested
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Forest Hills...
...High concentrations of DDT used against forest pests kill fish indirectly, by killing aquatic insects. Crayfish and tadpoles, both important fish foods, can be killed by contact with DDT and by eating DDT-contaminated food...
...echoes of their own high-pitched squeaks, owls need some light, but not much. Light as dim as a single candle burning nearly half a mile away was bright enough for a barred owl to find his mouse. Barn owls needed slightly more. The floor of a thick forest on an overcast, moonless night is considerably darker-too dark for an owl to get around in and see what he's up to. Under such murky conditions, Dr. Dice's experiments indicated, an owl flies, if at all, on instruments...
...Navy today is in the same position cavalry was at the end of World War I. And by the time World War III arrives, a battleship will be about as useful as a wooden leg in a forest fire. I have spoken...
...reader of The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime might guess, H. T. Webster had a happy boyhood. He spent it in Tomahawk, Wis. (pop. 3,365) where his dad ran the drugstore. Tomahawk (the way Webster remembers it) was a little town afloat in a forest where deer and small game were plentiful, the lakes and streams were stiff with fish, you could run onto the tracks of bear often enough almost to believe you had seen them and killed them, and school was no more interesting than it is in most other places. Webbie used to hide...