Word: infested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the idea of rising to the throttle of a locomotive, which he did in two years, at 20. Out west the infant Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie road offered openings. Young Willard steered clear of cards and drink, the avocations of the human riffraff that used to infest young railroads. Then the B. & 0. sent for him. He assisted its general manager for two years, when the president of the Erie sent for him. In 1910, before he was 50, the B. & 0. sent for him again, this time to be president. His conduct of that line...
...work has been done further south, but a well-organized expedition has never carried on such extensive research off the northern Labrador coast. One of the greatest practical advantages to be gained from this part of the expedition is the understanding of the movements of the ice-burgs that infest the ship-lanes...
...important things which were unknown was how the mildew spread. I found that the spores of the fungus are produced only at night when the leaves of the plant which they infest are covered with dew. At such times the spores are produced in immense numbers and with a fresh breeze sweeping down from the mountains, they are carried all over the country side, so that they often infest a large extent of land in a single night. One of the interesting things about the production of these spores is that they follow a schedule almost as regular as that...
Georges gets on to Harbin, where Aunt Teresa's ménage soon follows. Funds have ceased coming from her brother Lucy in Krasnoyarsk. The Vanderflints are indignant; Lucy writes it was the Bolsheviki; they don't believe him. In Harbin, they all infest a duchess's flat, loaned. Georges and Sylvia are caught kissing. Aunt Teresa is delighted; they shall marry. They are delighted...
...ever make their way back to civilization after living under such horrible conditions. Even if a few do not succumb before the end of their term to the many tropical fevers that infest the colony, when released, they are obliged to pass under parole a corresponding number of years. Thus, in whatever way, the primary object of the colony is accomplished: that no convict should come back alive to tell the tale...