Word: habitats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...zoologists say that Anabas Scandens, a species of acanthopterygian (having-spines-in-the-fins) fishes of the family Anabantidae, is popularly known as the climbing fish, because it actually does climb trees to a height of six or seven feet. Its habitat is India and the East Indies. It is about six inches long and has a peculiar spiny covering on its gills which enables it to retain water in the interstices. Thus it can live a long time out of water, travel on dry land for a long distance and can catch on to the bark of trees...
...scant three months, then, Mr. Leys leaves Cambridge tomorrow to sail for England. All those who have known him as a friend and as an instructor are loth to see him go, while any who may have the chance to see him at some future date in his native habitat look forward with pleasure to the opportunity of renewing his acquaintance...
...American audience in its rative habitat, it is not a homogeneous thing. For instance, lines and costumes which are all right in New York are far from all right in Boston. In fact the New York audience is a thing apart. Managers who have carried new plays successfully through preliminaries in Chicago or San Francisco tremble in their boots before the first night in New York. It could not be otherwise for cities which are famished for plays cannot be chooses, while the inhabitants of New York with forty productions of all kinds competing for their favor naturally assume...
...multitude of alumni who, beginning Saturday and continuing until Tuesday, will flock back to their former habitat will furnish to those about to join their ranks an object lesson in the attractive power of class feeling. They will show the value of joining early the existing graduate organizations in order not to miss anything. But aside from personal satisfaction alone there is, as Mr. Wadsworth points out, the duty of joining. Traditions, policies, material help have emanated from the organized alumni and the members of the University, having benefited by these priceless gifts owe in return at least the service...
Kammerer's chief experiments have been on fire salamanders with black and yellow spots. When taken from their natural habitat to yellow soil, they gradually lost their black color, and their offspring were all yellow. Kammerer also grew eyes in the sightless newt, which requires no eyes because it lives in greenish water depths. These results have been called in question by many biologists who claim that they are not instances of true inheritance, but merely of nutritive or chemical influences on the germ cells, the possibility of which is readily admitted...