Word: infest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Roorbach encountered various dangers in the course of his trip. He told of one experience he had with the bandits who infest the waters of the great silk growing region of the delta near Canton. While the silk-cargo boat on which he was a passenger was rounding a curve in the stream, a group of some 30 bandits, armed to the teeth, was seen on the bank. The silk boat was heavily armed against such a contingency, and cleared decks for action. But the bandits had a large sign displayed which read. "We are today only attacking fishing...
Mummy Germs: Tubercular bacilli found in Egyptian mummies are just like those that infest human bodies today. The characteristics of living matter change only as environment changes. Primitive living molecules were and are proteins. There is no life save in protein. The first evidence of life is metabolism or trading in energy. Biologists say the origin of species is due to changes in the formation of cells. In fact it is due to changes in types of proteins based on differences in environment.?Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, National Research Council...
...recent trip in Northern Africa, made in the company of two Arab guides, F. Van Wyck Mason '24 had a number of thrilling encounters with the bands of marauders that infest the region. The following article is reprinted from the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin, and tells of one such encounter...
...TREASURE SHIP-Scribners ($2.50). "The usual rabble of fairy godmothers", armored knights, rubicund policemen, aunts, bears, sponge cake and "the biggest giant that ever gianted" infest this compendium. It is entirely concocted by British authors-Sir James M. Barrie, P. G. Wodehouse, A. P. ("Punch") Herbert, Walter de la Mare, Hilaire Belloc, Algernon Blackwood, Cynthia Asquith (the editress) and many another...
Paris (Charles Ray). The French government has a legitimate grievance against the movie makers. To the American millions who see the world from the screen of the local cinema palace, Paris has become an absurdity. Only one thing happens. Chivalrous Americans infest Montmartre rescuing poor Apache girls from the dance dives. A girl has no chance to lead a decent life of shame in Paris any more, if we are to believe the movies. It always turns out that she was not really leading a bad life after all. It seems that a Parisian girl is not safe from Americans...