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Word: gummiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some bacteria thrive on the blackest, gummiest oil. When a wild well sprays the neighborhood, it poisons the soil for vegetation. But in a year or so, the oil is gone. Bacteria have eaten it up and fertilized the soil with their corpses, leaving it richer than before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Oil Bugs | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

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