Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grass Root" Meetings...
When Lowell's highest of high tables is burlesqued, the grass must be getting green in the courtyard. And when Professor Coolidge invites the parodists to join the guests of honor for coffee, spring has unquestionably arrived in Cambridge...
...flash of a firefly is a mating call. The unfertilized female waits in the grass, flashes in answer. In one common species, investigators have found that the male flashes regularly once every 5.7 sec. and" Mr. Buck discovered that the female replies 2.1 sec. later. Exchange of signals continues until they meet & mate. But other males may join the quest for the same female, and in answering her they get their flashes into phase with the first suitor on the scene. By selecting a cruising male and responding to its signal with a flash from an electric torch...
What SEC criticized in the Baldwin report was a balance sheet which consolidated the assets & liabilities of both Baldwin and its subsidiaries. Since the locomotive business was so bad that grass was virtually growing in the Eddystone plant, cash and working capital were the most important factors in judging the value of Baldwin's bonds. And, by its balance sheet at the end of 1933, net quick assets were about $13,500,000. But: more than half of that figure was accounted for by quick assets of Midvale Co., a subsidiary in which Baldwin owned only some...
...last survivor of the race of heath hens died in 1932 on Martha's Vineyard (TIME, April 11, 1932). Cause: overshooting, grass fires. The Eskimo curlew was extinct by 1925. Cause: overshooting during migration. The passenger pigeon disappeared just after the turn of the Century. Cause: market hunters killing nesting birds. The petrel and flicker of Guadalupe Island vanished about 1906. Cause: cats, goats. The Carolina and Louisiana parakeets were never seen after 1904. Cause: demand for caged birds. Great auks have been extinct since 1844 (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week specimens of all these unfortunates were included...