Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while those, unaccustomed to it, forced to endure her propinquity, experience far from pleasant effects, even to the extent of losing all relish for dinner. A hint that might be taken up by those desiring to reduce: a good strong whiff of certain scents will still pangs of hunger...
Fluffy disappeared. Jane Ruby tossed, her fever rose. Four spitz puppies whined with hunger. To the Jamaica police station went frantic Mrs. Ruby. There she found a kind-hearted detective named Horace Holden. Off went Horace Holden on a dog hunt. A day's sleuthing brought him to the room where Lawrence Smith lived. There was Fluffy. Horace Holden bundled Lawrence Smith and Fluffy in the back seat of his automobile, set out for the Ruby house...
...Hunger. That runaway led to hard hungry years for a 12-year-old. Young Murray chopped wood, picked cotton, hired out as a farm hand, led a prodigal outdoor life. Deep within him was another kind of hunger-a hunger for learning which he has not fully satisfied to this day. He attended rural schools here and there, now and then, and finally got admitted to a freshwater college in Parker County, Texas, called Springtown Male & Female Institute. Here he discovered what to study, went back to his odd jobs, returned to the Institute later to take and pass...
Dublin Journalist Francis Ferriter feels that because he is good he must be God. But when his hunger and thirst after righteousness begin to include a craving for Prostitute Teresa Burke, he hates himself so much that he decides to murder her. To lend the act godly significance, he pretends to himself that by making an example of Teresa he will scare the rest of Dublin out of their dearest deadly...
...very's triumph was to find an enzyme or ferment which has particular hunger for the coating of most deadly Type III. He had searched the country from coast to coast, had made hundreds of experiments. The necessary enzyme Dr. Avery and Rene Jules Dubos, Rockefeller bacteriologist trained by New Jersey's Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, found in the cranberry bogs of New Jersey. (They found it in the muck of the bogs, not in the berries.) When the bog-bred enzyme and Type III pneumococci are mixed in a test tube, the pneumococci are skinned, like Samson...