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Word: istrians (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...male is less than an inch long. The female is twice his size and gives birth to live fish. Surface-feeders, they gladly gobble all the mosquito "wigglers" they can hold. Italy bought 200,000 of them every year from U. S. fish dealers and dumped them into the Istrian ponds. They gobbled their weight in "wigglers." Fortnight ago the Italo-German Institute of Marine Biology announced that the gambusia had gobbled malaria clean out of Istria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Hero of Istria | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

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